MEDIA RELEASE - 27 June 2013 The NSW Legislative Council has agreed to two Greens amendments to the Local Land Services Bill 2013. The first amendment restores objects found in the Catchment Management Authorities Act relating to State priorities, triple bottom line natural resource management, and using sound scientific knowledge in decision making, to the objects of the [...]

Background  On 22 May, Energy and Resources Minister Chris Hartcher introduced the Petroleum (Onshore) Amendment Bill 2013 into the NSW Legislative Assembly. The Bill’s object is ostensibly to strengthen the compliance and enforcement framework for petroleum and mining operations. However, there are considerable concerns with how some of the Bill’s provisions would operate. Fundamentally, the Bill still fails [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 18 June 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham said the revelation that coal royalties had spectacularly collapsed by $573 million from the 2012-13 budget forecast, indicated that the era of king coal was at an end and that the government needed to diversify its revenue base.   “A high Australian [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 18 June 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today welcomed poll results showing an overwhelming majority of people support the right of landholders to refuse access to their land to mining and gas companies, saying the parliament should reflect this view and vote for amendments to the Petroleum Act that [...]

MEDIA RELEASE   -  12 June 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today welcomed the Government’s announcement that Santos would be prosecuted for unreported spills of untreated coal seam gas water at their Pilliga forest operations near Narrabri.  He said the spills were a warning that coal seam gas was a risky industry [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 4 June 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today called on the Labor Member for Page, Janelle Saffin to speak publicly in support of legislating landholders’ right to say no to coal seam gas.  Mr Buckingham expressed concern that Ms Saffin was hypocritically exploiting the coal seam gas issue for [...]