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WONNARUA PEOPLE: ‘STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR ENVIRONMENT AND SACRED SITES’
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Carrying banners and placards, dozens of people walked into the Office of Environment and Heritage today and met with the General Manager to urge the Office not to sign a Consent to Destroy Aboriginal Heritage along Bowman’s Creek in the Hunter Valley.
Scott Franks is one of the Plains Clan of the Wonnarua People fighting the Ashton mine’s expansion. He addressed the crowd today.
“We have a responsibility do all we can to stop the never ending destruction of our Country.
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RSVP today: Lock the Gate National Action at Tara, 30 April – 4 May
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Right now, there is a national movement growing against coal and coal seam gas mining across Australia. Farmers and environmental groups are blockading Coal Seam Gas (CSG) operations at Tara on the western Darling Downs in Queensland, locking their gates to the CSG activities that are hazardous to human health, agricultural land and underground water.
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Protesters disrupt coal Champion
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11th August, 2009
Climate change protesters disrupted a speech by Rio Tinto Coal Managing Director Bill Champion in Newcastle today.
Half a dozen protesters from Rising Tide Newcastle were removed from the premises by police after arriving at the speech with banners and a megaphone.
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Scam awards to honour mining industry
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Winners announced this morning – see below.
The Environment and Community Scam Awards, attended by members of coal affected communities from around NSW, will be held outside the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Terrigal this morning, to recognise and denounce the irreversible impacts of coal mining on communities and the environment.
The awards ceremony is a protest against the NSW Minerals Council’s Environment and Community Conference, which will be held inside the hotel, for $1000 per ticket.