November 30, 2014
MAULES CREEK, 30 November 2014, In an extraordinary show of solidarity 8 Canberrans have responded to a call for help from the Maules Creek community impacted by Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek mine in the Leard State Forest. The group have swarmed a ‘super digger’...
November 29, 2014
The Maules Creek local community and the Leard Blockade camp are joined this weekend by a contingent of 30 Canberrans including Australian Wallabies Rugby Player David Pocock, ANU Professor of Astrophysics Frank Briggs and ANU Philosophy lecturer Bruin Christensen....
November 26, 2014
Media Release from our Leard Forest Alliance Partner Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) Around 20 anti-coal activists in the Leard State Forest, near Narrabri, are being joined today by an expert contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel...
November 5, 2014
-MAULES CREEK 5 November 2014: Batman returned today to shut down Whitehaven’s Maules Creek project. A person dressed as Batman has scaled Whitehaven’s largest excavator, the Hitachi Super Digger. This action comes on the heels of Monday’s report from the UN...
November 4, 2014
MAULES CREEK, 4 November 2014: In the second day of Leard Forest Alliance’s (LFA) “Release the Bats” Initiative against Whitehaven Coal two people have locked themselves to a conveyer belt in the Whitehaven-owned Narrabri North underground mine. Serenity Hill, 37, and...
November 3, 2014
MAULES CREEK, 3 November 2014: Over 80 people have set up separate blockades on and around the construction site of the controversial Maules Creek mine, near Narrabri, in a ramp up of peaceful action to prevent the mine from depressurising the water table, already...