MEDIA RELEASE - 10 May 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on agriculture Jeremy Buckingham raised his concern that the O’Farrell Government was floundering on the detail of the Local Land Services (LLS), and called on the government to commit to maintaining funding in real terms for all services being taken into the LLS model.  Finance Minister [...]

Media Release 9 May 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham questioned why the government was repeatedly blocking access to documents relating to the granting of the Shenhua coal exploration licences by disgraced former Minister Ian Macdonald?  Mr Buckingham has moved a ‘call for papers’ on the project six times, but each time [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 8 May 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today said that AWU National Secretary Paul Howes was correct in the need for a domestic gas reservation policy to protect Australian manufacturing and consumers from a market failure relating to export of LNG from the East Coast, but that Howes was [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 1 May 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today said the O’Farrell Government was following the mistakes of the disgraced former Labor Government by renewing two large coal exploration licences over the Gloucester Valley.  Renewal of the licences 6523 and 6563 appeared in the latest Government Gazette. “Disgraced former mining [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 18 April 2013 Country Greens MP, Jeremy Buckingham responded to a press release by Nationals MP Kevin Humphries, accusing Mr Humphries of lazy politics and misleading the media and community.  “Everyone knows the National Party is too close to the mining and gas industry with senior Nationals like John Anderson and Mark Vaile [...]

MEDIA RELEASE – 10 April 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham welcomed industry acknowledgement that LNG exports from Queensland were the cause of future gas squeezes and price hikes, but said a domestic reservation of conventional gas resources from Moomba and Bass Straight was the answer, not drilling for coal seam gas [...]

MEDIA RELEASE 9 April 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham said today that key resource and energy ministers, as well as representatives of the gas industry, must address the question of an East Coast domestic gas reservation policy at the ‘Australian Domestic Gas Outlook 2013’ conference held in Sydney 10 – 12 [...]

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 [...]