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Gomeroi people to ask minister Hunt for stop work after miners deface sacred Scar Tree today. pic.twitter.com/gv9qyHsQcS -
Scar Tree protected from coal rail line but defaced today – Gomeroi renew stop work call http://m.smh.com.au/nsw/minister-failed-to-act-on-maules-creek-mine-stopwork-order-20140117-30yep.html … pic.twitter.com/kZQAmjzq5O -
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@1millionwomen thanks – was 41 degrees today, hard yakka in full sun @NoFibs
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“@GreenpeaceAustP: #leardblockade brings farmers/Trad Owners/environmentalists together http://bit.ly/1fvXOe2 pic.twitter.com/Ci5kiahaHR” -
BREAKING: #leardblockade continues with protestor suspended 25m high in two Red Gums. #coal http://www.lockthegate.org.au/leard_blockade_continues …
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Jackson Griffiths, 20, tree-sits over fallen River Red Gum – more to fall today for coal rail #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/lWzKxaiLzE -
Orange flags show path of coal rail line along Namoi River, tree sit top #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/mkynDlbgSm -
@margokingston1 @skirby11 @hdrebner @ANZ_AU @AustralianOpen #ANZ funding this destruction & #ausopen. RT to inform spectators #leardblockade
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Susie Russell tried to save this River Red Gum yesterday – charged with ‘hinder work of mining equipment’ pic.twitter.com/J2n3YAhp4s -
Ancient River Red Gum felled yesterday for coal rail line along Namoi River – more to fall #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/ZmlR5VY2SB -
Ecologist & Tamworth #leardblockade supporter Phil Spark – felled River Red Gum for coal rail could be 500 years old pic.twitter.com/6ILGwQJXjp -
“@pallisier: @Trev_t4e @margokingston1 Yes, this is the new reality. Development at any cost!” #leardblockade
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.@pallisier why #whitehaven coal rail line didn’t go round old Red River Gums along Namoi River – anyone know? #leardblockade
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Big old trees grow faster – vital carbon absorbers http://theconversation.com/big-old-trees-grow-faster-making-them-vital-carbon-absorbers-22104 … via @DangerousMere #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/ya12JRu99x -
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hey @margokingston1 how you doing in that heat? Great coverage from #leardblockade
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@peacenicsta 3 fully clothed swims in Namoi River every day.
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@margokingston1 @kateausburn so sad. When are shitehaven going to realise we can’t eat coal?
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@iainp327 #whitwhaven bought up many farms around Laird Forest – becoming an industrial area #leardblockade @kateausburn
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#Whitehaven planned to fell more River Red Gum today for coal rail. Tree-sitter stops it, police here #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/Ue7vdIFJry -
“@eldonnn: the ridiculous irony of trading CO2 siphons and coolers for CO2 producers and polluters @margokingston1” #leardblockade
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.@nbnnews reporter @simcameron on ground at Red River Gum tree-sit by first-timer Jackson Griffiths – #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/tPmz0uIzba -
Paddywagon here for River Red Gum tree-sitter Jackson, 20 (top right) – learnt to climb yesterday! #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/oYyvg90pCp -
“@borislav_TU: @margokingston1 Can picture it. Just like Latrobe Valley. Lots of dust, heat, fire risk, pollution for river” #leardblockade
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“@EmilEvers – do planning cond’s stipulate offsets? Usually if a tree felled one must be protected elsewhere.” Anyone know? #leardblockade
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BREAKING: Mayor went to main #leardblockade camp this morning – special meeting will declare high fire risk, eviction from all road reserves
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Funny – last week NSW Govt closed Leard/Pilliga forests for ‘fire risk’ – none other. Now Council under pressure to shut down #leardblockade
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Local farmer @Phil_Laird1 & ecologist Phil Spark to urge Narrabri Council at special meeting tomorrow not to evict #leardblockade camps.
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“@jaraparilla: if all citizens are to be banned from high fire risk areas, Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs will get VERY crowded.” #leardblockade
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Looks like State and local govts are selectively using ‘fire risk’ to close down coal & CSG protests in the Narrabri region. #leardblockade
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“@maggieatlas: @margokingston1 @jaraparilla Wonder what emergency plans of local councils for people & animals” #leardblockade
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@margokingston1 It seems so.How can there be selective fire risks?Why are excavators and tree removers not risks and at risk?#leardblockade
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NEWS: Narrabri Council to announce plan to evict protest camp from site near Leard State Forest. http://leardstateforest.tumblr.com/post/73894773343/narrabri-council-to-announce-plan-to-evict-protest … #leardblockade
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The camp nr Leard Forest has been in place since August 2012 – Whitehaven commenced work on Maules Ck coal mine this month. #leardblockade
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If the #leardblockade shd be removed from public land, then Whitehaven shd be too. It’s a public forest. #saveleard from #coal
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Tree-sitter in River Red Gum hangs in there – pic by local #leardblockade supporter Ros Druce pic.twitter.com/AzgDZUEBhq -
#leardblockade campaigners with tree-sitter protecting Red River Gums – pic by 3rd generation local farmer Ros Druce pic.twitter.com/owoqXDFVsO -
@margokingston1 Was the fracking site equally declared high fire risk & road closed? STAY PUT. Manipulation to protesters. Evicted, mine win
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@jan_olson of course not! It’s a scam.
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@margokingston1 They can only ask/invite you to leave.STAY.Our road.Remind police they are servants to serve & protect us,not corp officers.
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Are the #Leardblockade protesters against the one mine (Whitehaven)? or are they protesting against fossil fuels in general?
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@NostromoHicks an alliance, range of big-pic views, all agreed wring to destroy a forest for this coal mine
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All day vigil for tree-sitter in 42 C. I hear #whitehaven will hire a cherrypicker to bring him down #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/5eluiPYW0D -
That’s it from me at #leardblockade. Heading home…
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Tree-sitter was up a River Red Gum by Namoi River all day stopping Whitehaven’s bulldozers. He was removed by cherry picker. #leardblockade
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Shower, hair-wash, water from a tap, sweat-and-fly-free. Heaven. #leardblockade strips you down. Gee I admire front-line eco-warriors.
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To those who thanked me for reporting #leardblockade, that’s all I did. I thank those who do the work, take the risks, face the consequences
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A symbol of resistance! Tree stands strong for #forests!
“River Red Gum killed today at #leardblockade: http://youtu.be/KaYsXEYwSx4 v @YouTube “ -
We can’t just leave protecting our forests to young people, says @steve_evpx http://bit.ly/1cO6FjK #leardblockade pic.twitter.com/ROvN0KCbQZ -
the #leardblockade against new coal mine has a big event this weekend, starting Jan 25: https://www.facebook.com/events/1399601110291032/ …
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Narrabri Courier report: Council votes to move on protest campers. http://www.thecourier.net.au/news-feed/item/1847-council-votes-to-move-on-protest-campers … #leardblockade
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.@kateausburn an excellent report on the passionate special Narrabri Council meeting to evict #leardblockade camp – know who wrote it?
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Thank you for "that's all I did." because if you hadn't gone to the trouble a lot of people would not have known this was happening.
And the eco warriors will be able to tell their grandchildren how they fought to save 300+ year old red gums.
And fought to save this country so that their grandchildren would inherit something that their grandparents fought overseas for them to inherit.
But that democracy sadly is being sold to the highest bidder.