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 17, 2014
“Millions of litres of water are being wasted in this mine construction site and potentially the health of the creeks and rivers is at stake.” Susie Russell, spokesperson for Leard Forest Alliance. Read the story here.
January 16, 2014
In the fifth day of escalating protest at Leard Forest in north west NSW, protestors seeking to protect the forest from being cleared for an open-cut coal mine have again blockaded the entrance to the construction site for the mine, preventing a water tanker from...
January 15, 2014
Initial clearing of Leard State Forest by Whitehaven Coal These photos were taken Wednesday 15 January, apparently showing breach of the ‘limit of disturbance’ boundary in preliminary work by Whitehaven Coal for its Maules Creek coal...
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...
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