Three generations of the one family, including a woman in her nineties, have been slapped with fines by police and two women arrested at an anti coal seam gas blockade at a property north of Newcastle.
A large number of police moved in on the Fullerton Cove site this morning, on the eighth day of the protest.
Last week Dart Energy told NBN News there has been ample time to lodge objections, and described the blockade as a “last gasp attempt to delay the project”.
It said it will only proceed once there’s safe access.
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DART have a lot to answer for. Drilling for CSG in a swamp area where the water table is low and therefore most likely to be polluted. Good on these people (yes I have spent time there suppporting) . I want to be able to turn on a tap and have drinkable water come out of it.
Where do they go from here? Elsewhere in the area, do you want them in your backyard?
I saw on video the Riot police came, to move on peaceful protestors. Why are they doing that? It’s not right. People have a right to a say in this.
why are OUR police force being used against OUR own communities. This has to stop. It is alienating the Police force across the country, from the very Communities that they belong. OUR POLICE COMMUNITY should not be misuded to implement unpopular & unscientific private foriegn owned industries agendas! Police are not fools , they are parents, they have to drink, eat & live in our country too. The sad reality is that when injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!