Adani coalmine activists gear up to fight: ‘This will dwarf the Franklin blockade’

 Activists in Melbourne protest against the federal
 government and Indian company Adani’s
proposed Carmichael coalmine. More than 
11,000 people have pledged to join the
 campaign against the project.

Across Australia a secretive network of activists are laying the groundwork for what they expect will be the biggest environmental protest movement in the country’s history.

Of course this won’t materialise if Adani and the rest of the miners proposing to open up one of the world’s biggest coalfields walk away from Queensland’s Galilee basin first.

But standing idly by on the assumption that the economics of the massive coal projects won’t stack up – at a time the world is trying to reduce carbon emissions to limit global warming to under 2C – is not a choice these activists are willing to make.

And so the campaign to take the fight against Australia’s largest proposed coalmine, Adani’s Carmichael project, to another level, beyond the courts and into the realm of civil disobedience, is under way.

Read Joshua Robertson’s story on The Guardian - “Adani coalmine activists gear up to fight: ‘This will dwarf the Franklin blockade’.”