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Australia: Maules Creek mine halted as protesters chain themselves to bulldozers

2014-01-28 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AAP: Work at a controversial coalmine in northern New South Wales has been stopped by protesters who say the project will destroy a forest and its sacred Aboriginal cultural and burial sites. More than 120 people have blockaded four entries at Whitehaven Coal's $767m Maules Creek project, near Boggabri, and attached themselves to 13 bulldozers. Protesters from Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and the Hunter Valley have joined locals in the protest, among them blind 91-year-old Kokoda veteran Bill Ryan...

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