Choir blocks Whitehaven Coal transport

Singers from the  Ecopella choir have stopped work today as part of ongoing protests to protect Leard State Forest, the surrounding Maules Creek community and the planet from coal mine expansion. Miguel Heatwole, 54, Dallas de Brabander, 60 and Andrew Lenart, 51, have...

Medics Block Access to Maules Creek Mine

A group of medical doctors and medical students calling themselves “Medics Against Coal” blocked the main entrance to Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek Project this morning, protesting plans to clear half of Leard State Forest to make way for what would...

63-year-old woman locked to water tank: work halted at Maules Creek mine

Ongoing protests at the controversial Maules Creek mine have continued today with a group of people blockading access to a water tank, including a 63-year-old archaeologist who has locked herself onto the pump. The group is protesting Whitehaven’s hoarding of water...

Tripod protest stops Whitehaven Coal trucking coal for export

A protester attached to a tripod structure shut down the main haul road of Whitehaven’s Tarrawonga coal mine for twelve hours on Thursday 6 February. The haul road is used to truck coal from the mine to the train line at Gunnedah, where it is then transported to...