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Greenpeace sends in the airforce to bear witness to Leard Forest mine destruction
Press release – 3 June, 2014Maules Creek, NSW: Today, two motorised para-gliders have taken to the sky above the Leard State Forest. The gliders are filming the devastation left in the wake of Whitehaven Coal’s bulldozing of critically endangered forest.The action occurred on the day of a mass snap rally in Sydney organised by a…
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Snap mass rally to halt bulldozing of Leard Forest for coal mine
Press release – 2 June, 2014On the eve of World Environment Day, a coalition of national environment groups, Labor and Greens MPs and farmers hold snap rally to protest bulldozing of the Leard State Forest by Whitehaven Coal. Private spies have been identified as infiltrating the camp of landowners and environmentalists working to stop the…
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Whitehaven Coal thwarted as fresh activists step in to stop forest clearing
Press release – 1 June, 2014Maules Creek, NSW, Monday 2 June 2014: As tree-climbing activists hinder bulldozing for the fourth day in a row, Greenpeace is calling on the NSW Government to urgently stop forest clearing in the Leard State Forest during the winter hibernating months.“Just this morning, a new group of tree-climbers entered a…
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Activists halt Whitehaven’s ‘gentle’ bulldozers
Press release – 29 May, 201430 May, 2014 Sydney/Maules Creek: Greenpeace has today intervened to stop Whitehaven Coal controversially razing Leard State Forest. This afternoon at 13.00, a number of activists entered the threatened forest and headed into the canopy to halt the bulldozers in their tracks.“Just two weeks ago, the Baird State Government allowed…
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Coal industry gets preferential treatment from Baird government
Press release – 14 May, 2014Sydney, Thursday 15 May 2014The new Ministers for Environment and Planning in NSW – Rob Stokes and Pru Goward – are continuing the pattern of preferential treatment for the coal industry by weakening environmental protections associated with the Maules Creek coal mine to facilitate its development. State Government agencies have…
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Public thirst for Cash for Containers leads governments into voter danger
Press release – 29 April, 2014The Boomerang Alliance, a coalition of 28 environment groups, says the continued lack of action at a national or state level on cash for containers after a meeting of Environment Ministers on Tuesday, is setting the scene for a ‘Fail’ come election time in Victoria, NSW and Queensland.The Boomerang Alliance,…
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NSW Premier Baird should sidestep lobbyists and commit to Cash for Containers
Press release – 28 April, 2014In advance of a meeting today of all Environment Ministers set to consider a 10 cent cash for containers scheme, a coalition of 28 environment groups, including Clean Up Australia and Greenpeace, are calling on the NSW Premier Mike Baird and his new Environment Minister Mr Rob Stokes to ignore…