MEDIA RELEASE - 29 May 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham slammed the arrogance of the gas industry and resources ministers on display at the APPEA conference, after Santos moved to ‘escalate its war’ against opponents of coal seam gas and NSW Resources Minister, Chris Hartcher accused the community of ignorance. “The battle [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 28 May 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today condemned the Coalition and Labor party for failing to support landholders’ right to say no to coal seam gas.  Greens MP Jamie Parker moved in the Legislative Assembly amendments to the Petroleum (Onshore) Act that would have legislated the right for [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 22 May 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today welcomed the Government’s Bill to strengthen the Petroleum (Onshore) Act with stricter regulations and tougher penalties, but committed the Greens in both the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council to move amendments to give farmers and other landholders the right to say [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 10 May 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on agriculture Jeremy Buckingham raised his concern that the O’Farrell Government was floundering on the detail of the Local Land Services (LLS), and called on the government to commit to maintaining funding in real terms for all services being taken into the LLS model.  Finance Minister [...]

Media Release 9 May 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham questioned why the government was repeatedly blocking access to documents relating to the granting of the Shenhua coal exploration licences by disgraced former Minister Ian Macdonald?  Mr Buckingham has moved a ‘call for papers’ on the project six times, but each time [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 8 May 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today said that AWU National Secretary Paul Howes was correct in the need for a domestic gas reservation policy to protect Australian manufacturing and consumers from a market failure relating to export of LNG from the East Coast, but that Howes was [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 1 May 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today said the O’Farrell Government was following the mistakes of the disgraced former Labor Government by renewing two large coal exploration licences over the Gloucester Valley.  Renewal of the licences 6523 and 6563 appeared in the latest Government Gazette. “Disgraced former mining [...]