October 30, 2015
Media Release put out in conjuction with our Leard Forest Alliance partners. SYDNEY, 30 October 2015: Protesters have again converged for controversial coal miner Whitehaven Coal’s AGM in Sydney. The group of 50 have staged a mock ‘clearance sale’ pointing to...
September 28, 2015
Media release from the Leard Forest Research Node 24 September, 2015 Residents of Maules Creek are so fed up with the noise coming from Whitehaven’s Maules Creek coal mine they have taken it upon themselves to conduct their own study on noise levels and the impact to...
September 5, 2015
MEDIA RELEASE from Leard Forest Research Node. Academics and researchers from Japan’s Azabu University have come to the Leard Forest, North West NSW to ground truth statements made by Idemitsu Resources and Whitehaven Coal to the companies’ Japanese financiers. “The...
August 28, 2015
ACLAND, 28 AUGUST 2015. South East Queensland resident Kelly Purnell has locked onto the gate at New Hope’s Acland mine and halted trucks to demand a stop to any expansion of the mine and a full public inquiry into links between New Hope Coal, its parent...
August 5, 2015
BREEZA, NSW: The third anniversary of the Leard Blockade marks a turning point in the campaign as the protest group vow to put Shenhua’s controversial Watermark mine firmly in their sites. As news that Adani’s Carmichael coal mine in Queensland lost...
July 12, 2015
The Shenhua Watermark coal project on the fertile NSW Liverpool Plains represents a serious threat to farms, culture, habitat and the climate. Last week federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt approved the mine – larger than the city of Melbourne – and then...
June 16, 2015
SYDNEY, 16 JUNE 2015: Concerned citizens will rally tomorrow outside the NSW Minerals Council Beyond the Rocks conference this year being held in partnership with the NSW government. They are calling for the NSW Minerals Council – representing controversial miners...
June 4, 2015
Proving once again that Whitehaven Coal either know something that the rest of the world don’t or just have a ‘put trust in blind faith’ approach to business, the scandal plagued coal miner is expanding its production despite coal being at historically low prices. In...
May 22, 2015
photo: Cherie Lawrence photographer: Cherie Lawrence photo: Cherie Lawrence Over 70 concerned Brisbane residents gathered today at CommBank’s Queen Street branch to demand they publicly rule out funding the expansion of Abbott Point and destruction of the Great...
May 20, 2015
40 residents have descended on the Commonwealth Bank’s Bourke Street branch today, peacefully occupying the ground floor and holding banners reading “Funding Climate and Reef Destruction – Commbank Can!” The group are calling upon Commbank to...
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