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Coal-fired farce: @MaulesCreek protesters ordered to leave state forest http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/2023536/coal-fired-farce-maules-creek-protesters-ordered-to-leave-state-forest/ … via @The_NDL #leardblockade
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@mumdaze I am heading off soon – 6 hour drive
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I’ve hit the road to #leardblockade through Cottan-Bimbang National Park saved from logging by 1990’s blockades. pic.twitter.com/JFxEluTT7K -
Failed taxpayer-subsidised plantation outside Walcha on the road to #LeardBlockade pic.twitter.com/DtEC8j823G -
“@adambrereton: Fire bans are being used politically to shut down the Maules Creek coal protest http://goo.gl/y6j9Bb #leardblockade
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Fancy meeting you here, @mpbowers – @TheGlobalMail rolls into #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/Amwbj0AWXE -
#leardblockade sunset. More tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/i6TGrHWgcD -
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Police #leardblockade niggle tactic – issue defect notices on protesters cars, ‘fly screens need repair on canopy’ pic.twitter.com/kn67MwOZBS -
The heat, the flies – ‘your heart sinks when the sun comes up’ #leardblockade media mouth @georgefwoods pic.twitter.com/azp3ur33Ku -
Police arrive at ‘the Whitehaven access gate’ for rail construction with water & machinery trucks – #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/8l2nJ37xtA -
Why break law first time? ‘Human greed destroying national treasures. turning forest & farms into desert’ Ken Brown, retired ANZ employee.
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Armidale’s Ken Brown fined $220 yest. for blocking Whitehaven gate . First time civil disobedience. #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/Pt037Lc3hX -
.@mpbowers reads docos on Whitehaven ‘offsets’ for destroying critically endangered LeardForest #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/FtChNpQ3tm -
Narrabri tourism deletes LeardForest blurb, now ‘enormous coal seam of highest quality a few metres underground’ pic.twitter.com/NwFDVTdiEc -
Tanya Marshall, koala surveyer – Whitehaven no plan to save #koalas when fell the forest for coal #leardbloackade pic.twitter.com/PSCjisnr2t -
Locals opinion piece in @The_NDL We must preserve our natural heritage http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/2020985/we-must-preserve-our-natural-heritage/ … #leardblockade
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Police check in at #leardblockade camp pic.twitter.com/7MEMDxxY0N -
NSW Forestry closed Leard/Piliga State forests to March for alleged fire danger but miners can enter/excavate. Abuse of power #leardblockade
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Protesters – not miners – entering Leard/Piliga state forests = $2,200 fine under NSW Forestry emergency fire risk powers. #leardblockade
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The 2 forests closed to public have not stopped the miners – they are ‘authorised’ to work on despite emergency fire risk! #leardblockade
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“@john_stannard1: @margokingston1 Blockade hypocrisy. Surely machinery more likely to create a spark than human protestor.” #leardblockade
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Can a reporter at imminent @barryofarrell presser ask ? re selective forestry ban on public entering Leard/Piliga forests? #leardblockade
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“@adropex: @margokingston1 And bloody stupid to allow large machinery into fire danger area!” #leardblockade
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Hell Hot under cover in heatwave as activists sweat to save a forest from a coal mine. Fucked world #learblockade pic.twitter.com/AR5OouQjot -
Hell Hot under cover in heatwave as activists sweat to save a forest from a coal mine. Fucked world #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/cjjSPLKoHb -
Wondering about the #coal mine planned for Maules Creek & the #LeardBlockade stopping it?
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@PetefromHayNSW the camps are not in the state forest @ozmining
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FLAC (Frontline Action on Coal) camp – how to slow mining in extreme heat? #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/JWMdMZjsOS -
FLAC camp greenhouse to help feed campaigners #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/5AzSxMjOKa -
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Namoi River heat relief #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/jaXgL5sqwB -
Georgia Simmons diverted from road trip from Melbourne ‘for value, conecting to a good cause’ #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/q7DUOR7VJv -
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Sun sets amid rain! Day one on #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/78lHdysaHR -
From the car, incredible dust and rain country #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/uneca35PxA -
Home to base camp. Long day on #leardblockade. Goodnight. pic.twitter.com/spvjoWoTH5 -
…and then, full moon rise at #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/BqUkfzzvQU -
Ecstatic drive home – sun on rain sky at #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/1Wz4wYqCQD -
@margokingston1: Full moon rising where I’m sleeping tonight. #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/yCLliFw9Yh -
The sun has set and still this land glows at #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/W6JG51CloL -
Last pic of end of my #leardblockade day – light at dusk in this country is extraordinary. Nice place for a forest pic.twitter.com/L4p57bEomV -
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@Monster58384887 moon behind cloud, palette in sky. Maybe storm coming. Sweating – no heat relief.
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@44gallondrum never been in this region before – a small forest surrounded my coal mines and farms – hope it can be saved.
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Good stuff Margo.
Good luck to all.
Good luck!
fantastic Margo to be hearing about this thankyou
so much for democracy eh?
take care out there in that heat!
So inspiring to see you out there doing the hard, hot, sweaty, fly infested yards Margot – so different to most journalism these days that is conducted via press release from air conditioned offices. You always were – and remain – the real deal. Here’s hoping this little patch of paradise is spared.
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