June 7, 2014
The Leard Forest Alliance says Whitehaven Coal can expect more protests over the long weekend if it does not withdraw from clearing Leard State Forest now that legal action has been launched against the operation. It comes as 36 year-old Sakyo Noda maintains his...
June 6, 2014
Protest against winter forest clearing at Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek mine shows no sign of slowing as once again a protester takes to the trees. A 36yo man has occupied an area of the forest by suspending himself from a tree to prevent clearing in the Leard...
June 5, 2014
Whitehaven Coal’s contentious winter clearing has once again been stopped today on World Environment Day, by two protesters who have attached themselves to machinery used to demolish the forest. The activists are Kwame Tsey, a 32-year-old small business owner...
June 4, 2014
Today’s rally in Sydney yielded the results of a petition: 30,122 people say NO to Whitehaven’s Maules Creek coal mine. Members of the Leard Blockade today united with concerned citizens in Sydney to rally against continued clearing of the Leard...
June 3, 2014
In what is heating up to be another intense week of protest, activists from Maules Creek have again stopped work today, with one person locking himself to a bulldozer. Scott Burgess, 37 has immobilized a machine that is clearing the Leard State Forest for Whitehaven...
June 2, 2014
A small group of citizen scientists were this morning denied access to Leard State Forest, where they had intended to conduct community audit of clearing of endangered forest types and threatened species habitat that has taken place there during the last week for the...
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