Section: Coal Mining

Missing Mt Penny papers investigation - Jeremy Buckingham - 27 May 2014

29 May 2014 by maxphillips


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Motion: Whitehaven Coal Biodiversity Management Plan

Motion: Whitehaven Coal Biodiversity Management Plan

29 May 2014 by maxphillips

Jeremy Buckingham MLC Notice of Motion Whitehaven Coal Biodiversity Management Plan I give notice that on the next sitting day I will move: 1)    That this House notes that: a)    Whitehaven Coal has approval to clear a large area of the Leard State Forest for their Maules Creek coal mine in North West NSW, including [...]

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Labor forgets Central Coast residents on Wallarah 2 mine

15 May 2014 by maxphillips

Media release - 15 May 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today slammed the Labor Party for playing politics and forgetting the people of the Central Coast after failing to introduce their promised Bill to stop the Wallarah 2 coal mine. In March, Labor joined with the Coalition to vote down a Greens [...]

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Coalition & Labor vote against ICAC recommendation on mining licences

12 May 2014 by maxphillips

MEDIA RELEASE - 8 May 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today condemned the Government and Labor Party for voting against an amendment to the Mining and Petroleum Acts to establish an Independent Expert Mine Licencing Committee as recommended by the Independent Commission Against Corruption following the inquiries into corruptly granted coal mining [...]

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Goward must fix Gateway Panel farce

Goward must fix Gateway Panel farce

25 April 2014 by maxphillips

MEDIA RELEASE - 25 April 2014  The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today called on new Planning Minister Pru Goward to fix the ‘Gateway Process’ established to assess mining proposals on strategic agricultural land, after two of the six Gateway panel members resigned , including the chair Terry Short, and the panel was forced to [...]

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Minister should suspend all mining arbitrations after admission the system is broken

15 April 2014 by maxphillips

MEDIA RELEASE - 15 April 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson mining Jeremy Buckingham today welcomed the NSW Governments announcement of an independent review into mining arbitration arrangements and called on the Resources and Energy Minister to suspend all ongoing arbitrations until the review and the government’s response is concluded. “This is an admission by the government [...]

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Time to clean up the mining industry’s community consultative committees

11 April 2014 by maxphillips

MEDIA RELEASE - 11 April 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining, Jeremy Buckingham, today called on the government to reform the regulations around mining community consultative committees (CCC) after it was revealed that one woman, Margaret Macdonald-Hill was employed as the independent chair of 15 different CCCs by seven different mining companies and that her [...]

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Government & Rio Tinto should respect Supreme Court’s decision

Government & Rio Tinto should respect Supreme Court’s decision

07 April 2014 by maxphillips

MEDIA RELEASE - 7 April 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today congratulated the people of Bulga on their win in the Supreme Court, which dismissed an appeal brought by Rio Tinto and the NSW Government.  He called on both appellants to now respect the decision of the court by dropping plans to [...]

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Liberal MP Scot MacDonald projects his own methods in attack on Greens

Liberal MP Scot MacDonald projects his own methods in attack on Greens

03 April 2014 by maxphillips

Liberal MP Scot MacDonald projects his own methods in attack on Greens 3 April 2014 Last Thursday Liberal MP Scot MacDonald used an opinion piece to attack the Greens for engaging with country communities. Mr MacDonald slanders me and my media adviser Max Phillips (who is also a Marrickville Councillor) accusing us of using personal denigration and [...]

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Political interference in forest closures

Political interference in forest closures

02 April 2014 by maxphillips

MEDIA RELEASE - 2 April 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham has written to Police Minister Mike Gallacher asking for the reasons behind his ministerial decision to request the closure of both the Leard State Forest and the Pilliga Forest near Narrabri, saying he was concerned that the decision was a political favour [...]

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