Rising Tide environmental activists stop coal train near Newcastle to protest federal approval of NSW mine extensions

www.abc.net.au

Rising Tide environmental activists stop coal train near Newcastle to protest federal approval of NSW mine extensions

www.abc.net.au

zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to

Aussie Enviro@aussie.zoneEnglish · 2 months ago

Coal train stopped by activists protesting federal approval of NSW mine extensions

www.abc.net.au

Rising Tide protesters have climbed onto a coal train near Newcastle, calling for the federal government to reverse its approval for three coal mines to extend their operations for another three to four decades.

In short:

A group of Rising Tide protesters have stopped and climbed onto a coal train at Sandgate near Newcastle.

The group is protesting over federal approval of three coal mine expansions in NSW.

The company behind one of the expansions says it will support hundreds of regional jobs.

You must log in or register to comment.

Chat

Aussie Enviro@aussie.zone

environment@aussie.zone

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !environment@aussie.zone

An Australian community for everything from your backyard to beyond the black stump.

Topics may include Aussie plants and animals, environmental, farming, energy, and climate news and stories (mostly Aus specific), etc. New related communities will be split off when required, think like subcommunities that exist on that other platform.

Trigger Warning: Community contains mostly bad environmental news (not by choice!). Community may also feature stories about animal agriculture and/or meat. Until tagging is available, please be aware and click accordingly.

Banner Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/takver/14871864504/

Aussie Zone Rules

Golden rule - be nice. If you wouldn’t say it in front of your ~~grandmother~~ favourite tree, don’t post it.
No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. You are allowed to denigrate invasive plants or animals.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here. Except invasive plants or animals.
No porn. Except photos of plants. Definitely not animals.
No Ads / Spamming. Except for photos or stories about plants and animals.
Nothing illegal in Australia. Like invasive plants or animals. Exotic microbes and invasive fungi also not welcome.
Make post titles descriptive with no swear words. Comments are a free for all using the above rules as a guide. Fuck invasive plants and animals.

Server Info

Hosted in the Sydney Basin Bioregion on Gadigal land.
User community creation disabled - visit !meta@aussie.zone
Downvotes enabled
User signup enabled
Server Admin: @lodion@aussie.zone

/c/Aussie Environment acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

15 users / day
15 users / week
15 users / month
15 users / 6 months
0 local subscribers
893 subscribers
50 Posts
0 Comments
Modlog