Media Releases

Media Release 30 April 2020 Today's news that coal mining giant Peabody Energy will be cutting its workforce by ten per cent shows the danger of relying on resource industries according to Mackay Conservation...

Media Release 24 April 2020 Mackay Conservation Group is mobilising the local community to speak out about climate change and its devastating impact on the Great Barrier Reef. Over the past five years the...

2 March 2020 The threat to wildlife posed by the proposed Urannah Dam has inspired community members to donate more than $20,000 to Mackay Conservation Group over the past six weeks. Late last year...

Media Release 23 February 2020 Public Donates $12,000 To Protect Rivers Members of Mackay Conservation Group have plunged headlong into a campaign to safeguard our rivers. Community members have donated $12,000 to Mackay Conservation...

Federal Government approves Adani water project. The federal government has approved the North Galilee Water Scheme for the second time in 12 months. The first approval was overturned after a court ruled that the...