MEDIA RELEASE - 29 November 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham called on government and industry to discuss domestic gas reservation as a sensible regulatory response after the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) in its Gas Statement of Opportunities 2013 predicted a gas shortage in the East Coast network - particularly in NSW [...]

Let’s fix the Petroleum (Onshore) Amendment Bill 2013 The Government’s Petroleum (Onshore) Amendment Bill 2013 introduced back in May has been delayed until March 2014. This gives stakeholders the opportunity to comment on the Bill and the Land Access Code, with a view to strengthening landholders’ rights and protection of the environment. NSW Farmers said the code would be [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 21 November 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham welcomed the intervention of Premier O’Farrell who introduced legislation to insert a ‘public interest test’ into the mining and petroleum acts to enhance the power of the minister to cancel or not renew a mining or petroleum licence. “The Greens welcome the [...]

  Media release - 20 November 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today said the draft Code of Practice for Land Access released by the government last night would open up farms across the state to coal seam gas mining.  The failure of the government to remove compulsory arbitration provisions in the Act [...]

Keeping public lands in public hands: Crown Lands Amendment (Multiple Land Use) Bill 2013 The Government introduced a bill in September 2013 to change the way Crown reserves (including travelling stock routes) are managed in NSW. Read the Minister’s second reading speech here. This has ostensibly been done to address the Goomallee court case which found [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 4 November 2013 Greens mining spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham condemned the new Mining SEPP to be gazetted this week that elevates economic considerations above those of the environment and communities, saying that the government was lining up with the big mining companies against communities and the environment and that good planning principles were being [...]