February 17, 2014
These photos show an aerial view of land adjacent to the Leard State Forest where rail loop construction is being carried out by Leightons, contractors for Whitehaven Coal. The area where the rail loop is being constructed traverses culturally sensitive sites for the...
February 13, 2014
Gomeroi Elders, Maules Creek farmers, community and environment organisations joined together to march down the main street of Gunnedah before heading to Boggabri to sign the historic “Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Environmental Protection Agreement”...
February 11, 2014
The top image shows newly bulldozed trees at Idemitsu’s Boggabri open-cut coal mine in Leard State Forest. The existing mine has already cleared hundreds of hectares of the forest and is currently clearing so that it can expand further into the forest. The bottom...
January 19, 2014
Woman blockades coal mine railway construction, stops bulldozer felling old River Red Gum tree 57-year old Susie Russell has become the latest protestor to risk arrest at the ongoing blockade to protect Leard State Forest from being cleared for Whitehaven’s Maules...
January 15, 2014
A video update from the Leard Forest Alliance Ecologist Phil Spark explains what is happening in response to Whitehaven Coal moving into commence work on its new coal mine in Leard State Forest, and a man is arrested for blockading Whitehaven Coal’s access to...
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