Resistance to fossil fuel infrastructure continues in Western Australia

27.8.11

Wood­side tried to bring heavy machin­ery to the site of their liq­ue­fied nat­ur­al gas (LNG) hub at James Price Point in the ear­ly hours of Fri­day morn­ing, August 25. About 50 pro­test­ers blocked the con­voy of equip­ment under police escort head­ing to the mas­sive fos­sil fuel infra­struc­ture project in the Kim­ber­ley wilder­ness on the north­ern coast of West­ern Aus­tralia. A 57-year-old woman was arrest­ed after she locked her­self to a low-loader trail­er. Oth­er pro­test­ers clashed with police. The con­voy of about 30 trucks was also blocked by two peo­ple lock­ing them­selves to heavy machin­ery and a con­crete bar­rel.

Over 30 peo­ple have been arrest­ed this sum­mer in sim­i­lar block­ades against the project.

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