MEDIA RELEASES
Second QLD coal port shut down in a week by same two climate activists
02/11/2021 Environmental activists have stopped work this morning at North Queensland Export Terminal (formerly Abbot Point Coal Terminal) in Bowen, Qld. The port, owned by Adani, has been shut down by the same two climate activists who stopped work at Hay Point Coal...
Activists shut down Queensland’s largest coal port, plead for international pressure on Australian climate inaction
02/10/2021 Two climate activists have locked themselves to infrastructure at Hay Point Coal Terminal in Mackay, to shut down exports and highlight the urgent need for climate action ahead of the upcoming COP26 climate talks in Glasgow. Kyle Magee and Juliet Lamont...
Activists stop work on Adani’s rail line to send a message to investors
08/07/2021 Climate activists have disrupted work on Adani’s (Bravus) rail construction this morning, drawing attention to the role of global banking institutions in financing Adani’s Carmichael coal project. Just days after Adani announced it had struck coal for...
Work disrupted on Adani’s rail corridor – “there is no alternative”
24/05/2021 Work has been disrupted on Adani’s Carmichael rail construction site near Glenden in central Queensland this morning. Musician and student Morgan Heenan has locked himself to concrete batching equipment. Mr Heenan said "I'm doing this because there is...
Work Disrupted on Adani’s Rail Line – “Coal is Colonialism”
12/05/2021 Work has been disrupted this morning on Adani’s Carmichael rail line on the Gregory Highway near Clermont, with two people locking themselves to machinery. The two men say their action is in solidarity with indigenous people oppressed by Adani’s coal...
Anti-Adani activists call out Siemens’ lies
16/04/2021 Environmental activists have disrupted work at the Mackay office of electronics company Siemens, demanding the company terminate its contract to work on Adani’s Carmichael rail line. Siemens signed on to do Adani’s rail signalling in December 2019, after...
Activists stop work on Adani rail, demand Ecocide be criminalised
09/04/2021 Work on Adani’s Carmichael rail line construction has been disrupted by environmental activists for the second time in three days. With a group of supporters nearby, 63 year old Cairns-based public servant Carine Visschers blocked vehicles from entering the...
Health professionals stop work on Adani rail
07/04/2021 A group of health professionals have stopped work on Adani’s Carmichael rail line this morning, saying the health effects of coal and climate change mean the controversial mine must be stopped. The group, called Health On The Frontlines, gathered with...
Activists condemn Adani’s links to Myanmar military regime
31/03/2021 Environmental activists have condemned Adani for their cooperation with the Myanmar military regime, this morning staging a picket outside Adani’s Abbott Point coal terminal. A report released yesterday by the Australian Centre for International Justice...
Three women stop work on Adani’s rail line to stop more natural disasters
24/03/2021 Three women have disrupted construction work on Adani’s Carmichael Rail Corridor in central Queensland this morning, saying the mine’s climate effects will cause more frequent and extreme natural disasters like those we are already experiencing. Zianna Fuad...
Environmentalists target HSBC and disrupt work on Adani’s mine
17/12/2020 Early this morning, three environmental activists walked into a quarry near Belyando, QLD that is being used to build Adani’s Carmichael mine and railway line and locked themselves on to three separate front end loaders. Leon Pateman, Pia Truslove and Alex...
North QLD locals stop work at Adani’s coal port
27/11/2020 Jeanette Kemp, an ecologist from Townsville and Rupert Russell, an 81-year-old naturalist from Mount Molloy, near Cairns, are stopping work this morning at Adani’s Abbott Point Port in Bowen by attaching themselves to coal loading infrastructure. Both Kemp...