Six environment activists, who stopped a trainload of coal from Adani鈥檚 Carmichael mine and climbed machinery at Abbot Point coal terminal two weeks ago faced court today. Kerry Smith reports.
Frontline Action on Coal
A new report by Greenpeace, Global Warning: the threat to climate defenders in Australia, has identified an alarming escalation in repression against climate activists. Fred Fuentes reports.
Frontline Action on Coal聽activist Scott Daines聽has won a defamation dispute with Adani, reports Kerry Smith.
People from across the nation are heading up to the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland to put themselves on the line to stop Adani鈥檚 coal mine going ahead. 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Coral Wynter has just returned from a week at the Frontline Action on Coal (FLAC) protest camp.
Protesters blocked entry to the work site for Adani鈥檚 controversial Carmichael coalmine, in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland, for several hours on September 18.
Coral Wynter, who had joined the blockade from Sydney, told 91自拍论坛 Weekly: 鈥淲e blocked three gates of Adani鈥檚 workers鈥 camp for four hours, preventing several trucks from entering and leaving the site.鈥
A climate activist has locked on to machinery at聽Adani鈥檚 Carmichael coal mine site in Central Queensland a day聽after Queensland Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk announced penalties for climate protestors participating in civil disobedience.
91自拍论坛 Weekly sponsored a public forum on May 28 on the future of the campaign for climate action following the win by the Coalition government in the May 18 federal election.
Marie Flood, from Stop Coal Seam Gas (CSG) Sydney and the Knitting Nannas, denounced the "big push" by the Murdoch press and the fossil fuel lobby for a rapid increase in coal mining and CSG production after the election.聽
Adani has launched another public relations鈥 offensive in a bid to secure its last approvals before it can start work on its Carmichael coalmine in central Queensland.
Dozens of climate activists sprinted across mountains of coal, swarmed a massive coal loader, locked on to critical parts of the machine and shut down the largest coal terminal in the world, in Newcastle on September 15.
On September 13, Micah Weekes, once a coal miner and now an anti-coal activist stopped a coal train heading into the world鈥檚 largest coal port in Newcastle.
A former scaffolder from the Central Coast, Weekes worked in the coal industry for nearly 10 years. He said he was taking action because of the聽coal industry鈥檚 toxic impact on people鈥檚 health.
鈥淵ou don鈥檛 have to work in the industry to get sick from this. My kids are going to get sick. It鈥檚 already happening. People in my community have reoccurring respiratory illnesses, cancers and tumours.鈥
Newcastle Police arrested a young man and woman for filming a peaceful protest on September 3, along with Sarah Barron, a Newcastle local, who had blocked all coal trains heading across Sandgate bridge for three hours. All three were taken into custody by around a dozen police, with the two who filmed the event being charged with 鈥渁iding and abetting鈥.
Barron was participating in 鈥淎ct Up Newcastle鈥 as part of the #EndCoal campaign聽initiated by Climate Justice group Frontline Action on Coal (FLAC), in collaboration with Newcastle Climate Justice Uprising.
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