May 5, 2014
Singers from the Ecopella choir have stopped work today as part of ongoing protests to protect Leard State Forest, the surrounding Maules Creek community and the planet from coal mine expansion. Miguel Heatwole, 54, Dallas de Brabander, 60 and Andrew Lenart, 51, have...
May 2, 2014
A group of medical doctors and medical students calling themselves “Medics Against Coal” blocked the main entrance to Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek Project this morning, protesting plans to clear half of Leard State Forest to make way for what would...
March 14, 2014
JOIN THE #LEARDBLOCKADE FRONTLINE The campaign to protect the Leard State Forest and to stop Whitehaven Coal’s dirty Maules Creek coal mine is going from strength to strength as our numbers grow. Hundreds of people have now visited the forest and participated in a...
January 14, 2014
Two protesters who locked themselves to bulldozers at a controversial northwest NSW mine have been arrested but activists vow to continue their blockade. AAP, Protesters vow to continue action at mine, 14 Jan 2014 In recent days Whitehaven Coal brought bulldozers into...
December 19, 2013
“I am Fran Wachtel. I am 60 years old. Today I got arrested for obstructing traffic on the Leard Forest Rd at Boggabri. I am not crazy and I am not brave I would just like some of the real world to be left for my grand children and their children.” Fran...
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