The Lock the Gate Alliance is an incorporated Australian community action group which was formed in 2010 in response to the expansion of the coal mining and coal seam gas industries,[1] which were encroaching on agricultural land, rural communities and environmentally sensitive areas. The organisation has initially focused on responding to developments in the states of Queensland and New South Wales, through peaceful protest and noncooperation.
Lock the Gate Alliance's stated mission is "to protect Australia’s natural, environmental, cultural and agricultural resources from inappropriate mining and to educate and empower all Australians to demand sustainable solutions to food and energy production." The organisation features in the media regularly and lobbies government for stronger protections for productive agricultural land, groundwater resources and catchment areas.[2]
Lock the Gate has not successfully impacted coal seam gas in Queensland but has obstructed the development of the coal seam gas industry in New South Wales.[3]
- ^ "About Lock the Gate Alliance". Lock the Gate Alliance. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ "Anti-mining activists want assurances". Courier Mail. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ Bressan, Giorgia; Deshaies, Michel (January 2023). "Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)". Journal of Rural Studies. 97: 495–506. doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.01.001. hdl:2108/311957. Retrieved 17 November 2023.