MEDIA RELEASE 28 October 2011 Greens mining spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham, criticised the Minister for Resources and Energy, Chris Hartcher for dodging legitimate questions on coal seam gas at today’s Estimates Committee hearing. Rather than answer a question about how coal seam gas operations would deal with millions of litres of saline waste water, the Minister [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 25 October 2011 Greens mining spokesperson, Jeremy Buckingham has called on the Australian Petroleum Production Exploration Association (APPEA) to release the research conducted by their lobbyist Crosby Textor in its entirety after APPEA selectively released only one question to the media. “APPEA have been flogging a poll result to the media and [...]

Media Release - 22 October 2011 Greens mining spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham today called upon Environment Minister Robyn Parker to explain why she told ABC Television 7.30 program that testing on potentially poisoned fish had been conducted, when the Department of Primary Industries said no such testing has taken place. The 7.30 NSW program investigated mass [...]

NSW Greens MLC Jeremy Buckingham invites you to: A briefing on the environmental, health and economic risks of genetically modified (GM) crops, by Dr. Janet Cotter, Senior Scientist from the Greenpeace International Science Unit at the University of Exeter (UK). When: Wednesday October 26, 10am to 12noon Where: NSW Parliament, Room 814/815 RSVP to Jeremy Buckingham [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 11 October 2011 Greens NSW mining spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham has called on Barry O’Farrell to urgently look into changing mining access laws to restore balance between landholders and mining companies after farmer Ian Moore has been forced to appeal to the Land and Environment Court after an arbitrated access decision threatens his livelihood. Farmer Ian [...]

MEDIA RELEASE 5 October 2011 The Greens NSW spokesperson on the Murray Darling Basin, Jeremy Buckingham MLC, today backed calls from environmental groups to base environmental flows on science, not pressure from lobby groups. “The environmental groups have sounded the alarm at the direction of the Murray Darling Basin Authority on environmental flows and this [...]