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...
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...
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 19, 2013
In any language it’s a victory for protesters..protesters yesterday scored their biggest victory of this week’s sustained campaign of civil disobedience, succeeding in temporarily shutting down a coalmine at Boggabri.
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