Category: Media release
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Local Pastoralists and Traditional Owners celebrate decision to protect the Lake Eyre Basin’s Rivers and Floodplains
Traditional Owners and local pastoralists from Queensland’s Lake Eyre Basin have today won their eight-year-long battle to protect the Basin’s rivers and Channel Country floodplains from gas fracking. Today, the Queensland Government announced they will strengthen river protections in the region, ruling out any future oil and gas on rivers and floodplains and prohibiting existing…
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Pastoralists, conservationists, Traditional Owners, and over 22,000 Australians align to back no new oil and gas on the floodplains of the Lake Eyre Basin
Lake Eyre Basin-based beef company OBE Organic, the Lake Eyre Basin Traditional Owner Alliance, and key conservation groups have all supported an option proposed by the Queensland Government to ban future oil and gas developments on the rivers and floodplains of the Lake Eyre Basin. Over 22,000 submissions from the public in support of banning…
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Public consultation finally open for Channel Country protection
Pastoralists, Traditional Owners, scientists, and conservation groups align to support stronger Lake Eyre Basin River protection as Queensland Government releases long-awaited draft options for consultation OBE Organic, Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation, and the Western Rivers Alliance has welcomed the Palaszczuk Government’s release of a consultation paper which outlines options for meeting their election commitment to strengthen…
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End delay on promised protections for Lake Eyre Basin rivers and floodplains
The Western Rivers Alliance is calling on the Palaszczuk Government to release the long-delayed Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) for protecting Queensland’s Lake Eyre Basin’s rivers and Channel Country floodplains. In response to revelations that the RIS is intentionally delayed, as published in The Australian today, Western Rivers Alliance coordinator Riley Rocco said that further delays…
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Crunchtime for Channel Country rivers and floodplains as stakeholders meet for the last time
Today the Lake Eyre Basin (Qld) Stakeholder Advisory Group will meet for the final time to discuss the future of Queensland’s Channel Country rivers and floodplains. The Stakeholder Advisory Group was formed to ensure the protection of Queensland’s Lake Eyre Basin rivers and floodplains and includes representatives from the Lake Eyre Basin Traditional Owner Alliance,…
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Conservationists and Traditional Owners concerned as Palaszczuk Government approves production licences for shale oil fracking on Lake Eyre Basin floodplains
Members of the Western Rivers Alliance are today calling on the Palaszczuk Government to honour their repeated election commitment to protect the Lake Eyre Basin’s pristine rivers and wetlands from destructive activities such as oil and gas mining. This comes after news that the Palaszczuk Government has granted production approval to Origin Energy to frack…