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Australia: Climate campaigners start 'hunger strike' to block Queensland coal project

2013-08-30 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Australia's coal industry is being targeted by a range of campaigns from divestment to civil disobedience Share Tweet this Email Andrew Bartlett, left, and Ben Pennings, who are hunger striking in Brisbane in protest at a Queensland coal rail project Ben Pennings has recruited six so far but, according to his campaign group's website, another 150 people are going to join for a day or two in support. "We will only have water, and tea with no milk or sugar," says the 41-year-old environment...

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