April 23, 2015
The Climate Council has released a report today saying that if all of Australia’s coal resources were burned, it would consume two-thirds of the global carbon budget. They tell us it’s likely that over 90% of Australian coal reserves are unburnable, even under the...
July 17, 2014
Whitehaven Coal’s controversial Maules Creek mine has again been targeted by 20 protesters this morning. Two of the protesters, Rachel Mundy, 23, and Matthew Winter, 21, have chained themselves to a barrel filled with concrete which is obstructing access to the site....
May 20, 2014
A micro bat in the Leard Forest, late 2013 The Leard Forest Alliance has reacted angrily to revelations that the Department of Planning and Environment has changed a key management plan for the Maules Creek coal mine to allow clearing to occur in Leard State Forest...
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...
March 16, 2014
MAULES CREEK, NSW – Three protesters have locked onto equipment at two sites at Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek coal mine expansion project as part of the ongoing effort to halt the mine expansion that is expected to see half of the critically endangered Leard State...
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