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 - 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 – 20 March 2012 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today condemned the National Party for rejecting a parliamentary call for papers on the Shenhua Watermark coal project in the Liverpool Plains. The Greens moved in formal business for all papers relating to the controversial mine licence granted by former Minister [...]

Media Release 7 March 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today said the assessment of the Shenhua Watermark coal mine proposed for the highly productive Liverpool Plains area would be a make or break test of the O’Farrell Government’s Strategic Regional Land Use Policy, and if the mine is approved it would [...]

MEDIA RELEASE  -  21 November 2012 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham moved an urgent motion in the NSW Legislative Council today calling for the suspension of the Mt Penny and Doyles Creek coal exploration licences currently subject to an Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) inquiry. The Government combined with the Christian Democrats [...]

MEDIA RELEASE –  16 November 2012 Greens mining spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham will move a motion in the Legislative Council calling on the O’Farrell Government to suspend the Eddie Obeid related Mt Penny coal licence because of the evidence tendered in ICAC and the uncertainty the mine proposal is causing for Bylong Valley residents.    “Section [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 25 October 2012 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining has condemned the approval of the Maules Creek coal mine by a Planning Assessment Commission today, saying the mine would be an act of environmental vandalism and represented a failure of the O’Farrell Government’s Strategic Regional Land Use Policy. “This mine will destroy the [...]

By Bev Smiles, a spokeswoman for the Hunter Communities Network. Originally published in the Newcastle Herald, 15 october 2012. Reproduced with the permission of the author. THE approval of the Ashton South East open-cut mine on the southern side of Camberwell village is a prime example of the broken planning system in NSW. Regardless of [...]

Media Release 12 October 2012 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham has today written to Premier Barry O’Farrell requesting the release of information regarding Resources and Energy Minister Chris Hartcher’s activities with lobbyists, after the Minister told Budget Estimates it was his ‘policy’ to keep such contacts secret. Minister Hartcher repeatedly refused to [...]