MEDIA RELEASES
Climate activist given suspended prison sentence for Adani protest
28/04/21 A climate activist has been given a suspended prison sentence in the Bowen Magistrates Court today for stopping a train loaded with coal from Adani’s controversial Carmichael mine last December. Kyle Magee and Franz Dowling both plead guilty to three offences...
Environmental activist denied bail and sent to prison
17/12/21 Environmental activist Kyle Magee has been denied bail today in the Bowen Magistrates Court and remanded in custody. Mr Magee was arrested yesterday after stopping Adani’s coal train for over 20 hours and shoveling coal out of a carriage. He was refused bail...
Activists stop another Adani coal train
15/12/2021 Environmental activists have stopped a train loaded with coal from Adani’s controversial Carmichael mine this afternoon. It is the third time in the last month that an Adani coal train has been blocked before getting to the port. Jeffrey Cantor has locked...
Activists sentenced for stopping Adani coal train
Six environmental activists, who two weeks ago stopped a trainload of coal from Adani’s Carmichael mine and climbed machinery at Abbot Point coal terminal, faced Bowen Magistrates Court today. All six plead guilty, though two had their matters adjourned for sentencing...
Climate activist given suspended prison sentence for Adani protest
02/12/2021 Climate activist Juliet Lamont has been given a suspended prison sentence for taking peaceful protest action this morning in the Bowen Magistrates Court. Ms Lamont, a 50 year old documentary film-maker and mother of two, was given a one month term of...
Activist stops work at Adani’s coal terminal
01/12/2021 An environmental activist has stopped work at Adani’s North Queensland Export Terminal (formerly Abbot Point) near Bowen this morning by suspending himself from the stacker/reclaimer machine. Whitsundays resident Paul Jukes stopped the machine and climbed...
Six arrested in Adani Coal Train actions
30/11/2021 Six community members were arrested today after taking action to stop Adani’s coal train which was transporting coal from Adani’s controversial Carmichael coal mine to Adani’s North Queensland Export Terminal (formerly Abbot Point coal port) in Bowen....
Mother and daughter blockade Adani’s first trainload of coal
30/11/2021 For the second time this morning, two environmental activists, a mother and daughter, have used direct action tactics to block Adani's first trainload of coal near Bowen, QLD. Juliet and Isla Lamont have used steel pipes to lock themselves onto a train...
Activists block Adani’s first trainload of coal
30/11/2021 Two environmental activists have stopped the first trainload of coal from Adani’s controversial Carmichael mine near Bowen, Queensland this morning. Tammy Omodei and Andy Paine have used steel pipes to lock themselves on to the railway that is carrying...
Activist stops train load of Adani coal
15/11/2021 An environmental activist has stopped a train loaded with coal from Adani’s controversial Carmichael mine in Central Queensland this afternoon. 62 year old mother of two Megan Byrnes locked herself to a train carriage just north-east of Collinsville. The...
Climate activists released after a week in custody
09/11/2021 Two environmental activists have been released after spending a week in custody in central Queensland. Kyle Magee and Juliet Lamont were both denied bail and held in custody on November 2nd, after disrupting work at two coal ports in a week. They locked...
Activists denied bail after protest at Adani coal port
02/11/2021 Two environmental activists who were arrested this morning disrupting work at Adani's North Queensland Export Terminal have been denied bail in Bowen Court and remanded in custody. Juliet Lamont and Kyle Magee locked themselves to a conveyor belt this...