January 14, 2014
Whitehaven Coal blockaded 15 January 2014: A blockade is in place to prevent further destruction of Leard State Forest by Whitehaven Coal. Police are on site. Whitehaven Coal recently began preparatory work to construct its Maules Creek Coal mine in Leard State...
January 14, 2014
The Northern Daily Leader reported on Tuesday 14 January 2014: ANTI-COALMINING protesters camped in the Leard State Forest for more than 530 days have been given just hours to vacate the site or risk being forcibly removed by police. The Leader understands Forestry...
December 19, 2013
Whitehaven’s Maules Creek project is the biggest new coal mine under construction in Australia. The mine would emit the same amount of carbon pollution annually as the entirety of New Zealand. …And so the time came. The time to do the difficult things. The time to...
December 4, 2013
Call to Action! Maules Creek is a small farming community that sits on the outskirts of the Leard State Forest in north west NSW. Right now, the community’s health and the productivity of the farmland is at risk of being destroyed by the massive new open-cut...
October 1, 2013
A group of people have gathered on the haul road of Idemitsu Kosan’s Boggabri Coal Mine today to protest the destruction of the Leard State Forest. All trucks have ground to a halt at the intersection with Therribri Road near the Namoi River. “We are here today to...
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