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 [...]

The following questions related to the Bentley Blockade and the use of police to smash the peaceful community movement were asked of the NSW Premier, Mike Baird and the Police Minister, Stuart Ayres in parliament on 8 May 2014. As usual the Government has chosen to dodge the questions and hold the genuine concerns of [...]

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 [...]

ARE you willing to pay more on your gas bill to boost the profits of foreign companies? That’s what the gas industry wants you to do and it is why they are running a scare campaign on gas supply and price. These companies want to export conventional gas from Bass Strait and South Australia, that [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 26 March 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today welcomed the announcement that there would be a 6 month freeze on assessing petroleum exploration license applications but warned that there are still no clear protections for key agricultural regions. “This decision is a clear recognition by the government that coexistence [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 21 February 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today said he would refer the Memorandum of Understanding between the NSW Government and coal seam gas company Santos to the Independent Commission Against Corruption saying that the declaration that the project would be fast-tracked as a ‘Strategic Energy Project’ undermined the [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 17 February 2014 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today condemned NSW Minister for Resources Anthony Roberts for running a scare campaign based on industry lies to justify turning NSW into a toxic gas field. “The idea that NSW must industrialize our agricultural land and threaten our water resources in response [...]

In Feb/March 2014 we are bringing John Fenton, a cattle rancher from the USA, out to Australia where he will be telling his story of how fracking for gas poisoned the water in his home town of Pavillion, Wyoming. Following the drilling of 200 gas wells in his region, drinking water now has to be [...]

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 [...]