March 31, 2014
Police blocked Leard Forest Road and refused to allow a local farmer to have a BBQ with her invited guests. The peaceful picnickers enjoyed their lunch on the road reserve instead but feel this refusal to allow a private BBQ in a private home is...
March 17, 2014
A 62 year old geo-physicist has locked himself to a drill rig in Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek mining project in the another day of disruption at the site. Glen Torr, from Canberra, is calling upon Greg Hunt to revoke approval and suspend all construction work...
March 16, 2014
MAULES CREEK, NSW – Three protesters have locked onto equipment at two sites at Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek coal mine expansion project as part of the ongoing effort to halt the mine expansion that is expected to see half of the critically endangered Leard State...
March 14, 2014
JOIN THE #LEARDBLOCKADE FRONTLINE The campaign to protect the Leard State Forest and to stop Whitehaven Coal’s dirty Maules Creek coal mine is going from strength to strength as our numbers grow. Hundreds of people have now visited the forest and participated in a...
March 12, 2014
Faith leaders travelled to Maules Creek this week to support local protesters who are trying to stop a new mine. People who think religion should stay out of politics may be rattled by such a move, and certainly it should not be seen to bless anyone who breaks the...
March 12, 2014
In an unprecedented show of support from the faith sector, today religious leaders and affiliates from the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) are holding a prayer vigil near one of the entry points to Whitehaven Coal’s mine construction site in...
March 10, 2014
A man who climbed a Box Gum tree on Sunday evening in an area of the Leard forest slated for imminent clearing for the expansion of the Boggabri mine is maintaining his tree-top vigil this morning. Click here for full media statement.
March 10, 2014
A man who climbed a Box Gum tree on Sunday evening in an area of the Leard forest slated for imminent clearing for the expansion of the Boggabri mine is maintaining his tree-top vigil this morning. The platform on which he is suspended in the tree is in the middle of...
March 4, 2014
A 21-year-old man has suspended himself from a tripod this morning, blocking the gates to Whitehaven Coal’s coal rail loader at Gunnedah, as a group of people gather to support his actions and protest the company’s plans to clear a large part of Leard State Forest in...
March 4, 2014
Narrabri Shire Council is again attempting to evict the Front Line Action On Coal camp which has been working for around 18 months to protect Leard State Forest from open-cut coal mining. The camp was moved-on from its original site following mounting pressure and...
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