The short version is that Solid Energy basically don’t care about us anymore, and they are blasting again.
It seems that in the week after we started putting ourselves within Solid Energy’s blasting zone on Mt. Augustus that the mining company freaked and halted blasting. In the week after that they got the Department of Conservation [...]
Category Archives: ecology
A Quick Report Back on Augustus
26th February 2007 – 6:55 pm
Happy Valley and a (Partial) Convergence in Strategy
19th February 2007 – 9:51 pm
Tens of thousands of dollars of court fees, disempowering legal processes, humiliating lobbying and pointless petitions failed to stop the potential extinction of a species and the obliteration of a mountaintop. But it seems a simple camp is currently forcing Solid Energy to halt its operations. Since the 5th of February, members of the Save [...]
Happy Valley and a Divergence in Strategy
17th January 2007 – 12:58 pm
Yesterday, members of the Save Happy Valley Coalition organised a 69m banner drop across two cranes in Wellington port. Ten days of preparation went off fairly well (only a few issues with the unfurling), and incredibly they managed to convince both the Police and the Port Authorities that they were allowed to be there. Apparently, [...]
