MEDIA RELEASE - 29 Jan 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today called local Riverina MPs to stand up and protect the area from the threat of coal seam gas, saying that coal seam gas mining should be excluded from irrigation districts and other productive agricultural lands.   “The Greens believe that productive [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 28 January 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today called on the O’Farrell government to increase the land area protected from coal seam gas after only 3.37% of NSW was protected from fracking in its ‘finalised’ CSG reforms saying that many productive agricultural areas and water resources, as well as [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 15 January 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham reiterated his call for the O’Farrell government to implement the ICAC recommendation to cancel or expunge coal exploration licence 7270 (EL7270) at Doyles Creek after NuCoal made a submission that it should keep the exploration licence.  “No one should benefit from a corruptly granted [...]