Tag: Galilee Basin

  • Activists prepare to protect Wangan Jagalingou lands

    Activists prepare to protect Wangan Jagalingou lands

    The Wangan Jagalingou people are mounting another legal challenge to the Qld government
    The Wangan Jagalingou people are mounting another legal challenge to the Qld government

    Activist groups around the country are preparing to defend the Wangan Jagalingou lands in the Galilee Basin from coal mines.

    The recently approved Adani mine will provide less than 1,500 jobs and will consume 12 billion litres of water each year and create a hole in the ground 64 square kilometres in size.

    Direct action on the site will not commence until initiated by local First Nations people.

    A group known as Galilee Blockade is coordinating actions around the country, Get Up, World Wildlife Foundation, The Greens and Greenpeace have all announced their support for the Wangan and Jagalingou people, setting up petitions and running advertising campaigns.

    The Cage encourages people to directly support the Wangan Jagalingou people as much as possible.

    The Wangan Jagalingou website

    The Wangan Jagalingou petition

    The Galilee blockade

  • Adani to visit Queensland

    Adani to visit Queensland

    gautam-adaniIndian billionaire Gautam Adani will visit Queensland this week to inspect the world’s largest coal mine and the rail and port facilities gifted to him last week by Prime Minister Turnbull.

    The Australian taxpayer will support the Indian energy tycoon with one billion dollars in cash and 12billion litres of free water, every year.

    Adani will be hosted by Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and opposed by activists from Townsville to Brisbane who are preparing to mount a Standing Rock style campaign in support of the Wangan and Jaguligu people whose land will literally vanish as a 60 square kilometer hole is dug in the Galilee basin. The coal from the basin will double Australia’s annual carbon emissions.

    Financial Review

    GET UP on Adani

    The Juice Media – CCRAP

    https://www.communityrun.org/petitions/don-t-let-adani-build-their-huge-coal-mine-on-our-traditional-land