May 15, 2014
The Leard Forest Alliance says Whitehaven Coal has been secretly negotiating changes to its Biodiversity Management Plan with the NSW Department of Planning and Environment to allow them to keep clearing Leard State Forest over winter, in a move that will lead to...
May 12, 2014
TODAY: Simon Wells, 55, of the Sunshine Coast has halted work in Whitehaven Coal’s proposed Maules Creek mine site in the Leard State Forest by chaining himself to construction machinery. As disgraced businessman and former Maules Creek mine investor Nathan...
May 11, 2014
Two mothers have chained themselves to construction equipment at the site of Whitehaven Coal’s controversial Maules Creek mine site in the Leard State Forest halting work on the new rail line. Felicity Crombach, 69, and Annette Schneider, 53, both mothers of...
May 10, 2014
15 protesters from the Maules Creek coal mine blockade have taken their campaign to the other end of the coal chain this morning, stopping a coal train in Newcastle. Protesters approached the stopped train as it entered the Kooragang Island coal terminals from where...
May 5, 2014
Singers from the Ecopella choir have stopped work today as part of ongoing protests to protect Leard State Forest, the surrounding Maules Creek community and the planet from coal mine expansion. Miguel Heatwole, 54, Dallas de Brabander, 60 and Andrew Lenart, 51, have...
May 2, 2014
A group of medical doctors and medical students calling themselves “Medics Against Coal” blocked the main entrance to Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek Project this morning, protesting plans to clear half of Leard State Forest to make way for what would...
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