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...
February 11, 2014
The beauty of Leard State Forest. This is just some of what will be destroyed if the open-cut coal mines go ahead. You can click each image to see a larger version. What you’re looking at: Double-barred Finches taking advantage of a cool summer breeze Eucalypt in...
February 8, 2014
A protester attached to a tripod structure shut down the main haul road of Whitehaven’s Tarrawonga coal mine for twelve hours on Thursday 6 February. The haul road is used to truck coal from the mine to the train line at Gunnedah, where it is then transported to...
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