February 29, 2016
MAULES CREEK and WILLOW TREE, 29 February 2016: Protests continue in North West NSW this morning, with one man stopping stopping coal trains near Willow Tree. Three more are locked to bulldozers in the Whitehaven Coal Maules Creek mine, delaying clearing of the Leard...
February 27, 2016
Photos available here https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ifgiqhi1cqgin/27_Feb_2016_EXTERNAL MAULES CREEK and WILLOW TREE, 27 FEB 2016: Today the rail line for coal in north west NSW has again been shut down by activists concerned over Whitehaven’s forest...
February 26, 2016
The time signature shows 10.54am and the temperature over 35C later in the day temperatures were at 38C The GPS location in Leard State Forest MEDIA UPDATE 26 Feb 2016 MAULES CREEK, 26 Feb 2016 It has been alleged today that Whitehaven coal are likely to have cleared...
February 21, 2016
WERRIS CREEK, 21 February, 2016: Two women have peacefully occupied a fully-laden coal train in Werris Creek this morning to call for a moratorium on further coal and gas production in Australia as the world moves to restrict fossil fuels and move to renewable energy....
February 19, 2016
BOGGABRI, 19 FEB 2016: Anti-coal protests have returned to the Leard State Forest with a group of 30 gathering at the gates to Whitehaven and Idemitsu’s Tarrawonga coal mine. Both Whitehaven and Idemitsu have approval to clear the critically endangered Leard...
February 18, 2016
Media Release from the Leard Forest Research Node Temperatures over 35 degrees will halt the felling of Leard State Forest, under conditions imposed on the Boggabri and Maules Creek Coal mines, but community observers have extreme doubts that the condition will be...
February 16, 2016
Media Release from the Leard Forest Research Node Maules Creek is in security lockdown on the eve of extermination of possibly a further 500 hectares of Leard State Forest, to expand the Maules Creek and Boggabri coal mines. “Mine security monitors all traffic at...
February 15, 2016
Gomeroi Traditional Custodians were today joined by concerned locals and supporters near the gates of Whitehaven’s Maules Creek Coal Mine in the Leard State Forest for a traditional ceremony. The Emu Ceremony was supposed to be held at the Gomeroi sacred site, Lawlers...
February 14, 2016
MEDIA RELEASE from Wando Conservation and Cultural Centre Heart-broken koala lovers today protested on the eve of planned annihilation of up to 500 hectares of woodlands by coal mines at the Leard Forest, New South Wales. “Boggabri Coal and its parent company the...
February 1, 2016
The Gomeroi elders and other Gomeroi people of the local community would like to invite everyone to a sacred ceremony to be held in the Leard State Forest 15th February 2016 for a ceremonial evening meet at the travelling stock route across from Velyaama gate entrance...
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