MEDIA ALERT 9 April 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham will take on the Member for Kiama, Gareth Ward tonight at a community meeting on coal seam gas in Gerringong. “Gareth Ward’s government recently renewed the coal seam gas licence PEL 469, which covers from Wollongong to Sussex Inlet and inland to [...]

Rally outside the NSW Government mining conference The NSW Government is sponsoring a $900 a head NSW Mineral Exploration and Investment Conference next month in Sydney. The two-day event (18/19 August) will see government and industry players coming together at a fancy hotel to discuss how to carve up NSW for coal and gas mining [...]

Around 250 people turned out to a public meeting on coal seam gas in Sydney at Leichhardt Town Hall last night.  The meeting was hosted and MC’d by the Member for Balmain, Jamie Parker. Listen to the ABC Radio report.  Read the article in the Sydney Morning Herald.  Or read this account  in New Matilda. [...]

Jeremy Buckingham’s mining tour of NSW in July took in the Western coal fields, Hunter Valley, Mid North Coast, Liverpool Plains and Moree and Narrabri districts.       View photos of the tour: This is the route of the mining tour. View Larger Map Media Release 18 July 2011: Media release - Jeremy Buckingham, [...]

Public Meeting 7 - 9pm, Monday 1 August Lecihhardt Town Hall Come along to watch 15 minutes of film on coal seam gas in Australia, followed by speeches and discussion. Coal seam gas mining is set to expand across NSW, including Sydney. But there are great concerns about this industry’s effects on health, water, agriculture [...]