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.
December 18, 2013
Boggabri Coal mine shut down A group of people have shut down Idemitsu’s Boggabri Coal Mine today as part of ongoing protests to protect Leard State Forest and the surrounding Maules Creek community from coal mine expansion. The group is calling on Japan Bank of...
December 18, 2013
Boggabri Coal mine shut down A group of people have shut down Idemitsu’s Boggabri Coal Mine today as part of ongoing protests to protect Leard State Forest and the surrounding Maules Creek community from coal mine expansion. The group is calling on Japan Bank of...
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