Activists are launching Adani Free Zones across Australia in their fight against Adani’s mega mine in Queensland. The Galilee Blockade group is planning to target not only the Adani coal company but any other companies that are associated with the project.
The Galilee Blockade group launched their campaign today and have Downer as their first target according to news.com.au, as it is the preferred contractor to build and operate Adani’s Carmichael mine.
The group is asking all the local councils in the Northern Rivers region of NSW not to enter into contracts with companies like Downer who have an interest in Adani mine. It is said that at the moment, Downer is tendering for asphalt contracts with Lismore Council and the company is also on the Northern Rivers Regional Organisation of Councils’s list of preferred contractors.
An open cut mine in the Hunter Valley near Newcastle, Thursday, May 31, 2007. Source: AAP
“Adani Free Zones will be people powered,” Galilee Blockade national spokesman Ben Pennings said. “Citizens will use their personal and collective power to keep any company in bed with Adani out of their region.”
The northern Rivers region, which has Lismore, Grafton and Tweed Heads in Northern NSW, has a record of successful community blockades and had famously stopped coal seam gas developments from going ahead in 2015 after more than two years of civil action.
The Adani Free Zone launch comes after about 100 activists from Frontline Action on Coal and Reef Defenders held a week-long protest in Bowen against the mine.
Source: SBS Punjabi
There will also be a #StopAdani national day of action on Saturday, October 7 with more than 30 events planned across Australia.
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