Month: August 2005

Gippsland, Thursday, August 11, 2005:* Greenpeace is today taking on the developed world’s most greenhouse-polluting power plant, Hazelwood power station in the Latrobe Valley, as extreme weather conditions batter Victoria. Greenpeace activists, this morning occupied a loader in the brown coal pit at Hazelwood and awarded the plant ‘1st prize’ as the developed world’s most…

Myself and Sam being released by police

The Daily Telegraph | Activists target ‘dirty’ coal plant: “Activists target ‘dirty’ coal plant By Kate Lahey August 11, 2005 GREENPEACE activists have taken over a coal dredger at Hazelwood power plant in Victoria, labelling the station the dirtiest in the developed world. Four activists chained themselves to the dredger while dozens more staged a…

Protesters target ‘dirty’ coal plant: “Protesters target ‘dirty’ coal plant 17:44 AEST Thu Aug 11 2005 AAP Greenpeace activists have occupied a coal dredger at Victoria’s Hazelwood power station, labelling it the world’s dirtiest energy plant. The protesters draped a first-place ribbon over the loader, saying Hazelwood, in Victoria’s south east, had earned the title…

Police remove Greenpeace mine activists. 11/08/2005. ABC News Online: “Greenpeace protesters who broke into a Latrobe Valley coal mine in eastern Victoria have been removed by police. About 40 protesters, some dressed as power workers and wind turbines, broke into the Hazelwood Coal mine early this morning by cutting padlocks. Four of the demonstrators scaled…