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Carbon Budget Blowout
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People's Blockade of the World's Biggest Coal Port
Saturday 3rd November 2007 - 400 people came to Newcastle Harbour and 250 blockaded the shipping channel. The protest was the start of a community non-violent direct action campaign to prevent the planned massive expansion of coal exports from Newcastle Harbour.
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Street Parade 31st July 07
150-200 people gave up a weekday lunch hour to march to the offices of Jodi McKay and Sharon Grierson, state and federal members for Newcastle, to call on the Labor Party to take a stand against Australia's biggest contribution to climate change - coal exports.
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"Freeze emissions growth" flash mob - 21st June 2008
About 60 people froze for 5 minutes in a shopping centre food court, to the bemusement of shoppers. The message: Freeze emissions growth. Despite the global climate crisis, greenhouse emissions in Australia and around the world continue to rise. This was an eye-catching and unusual way to draw attention the problem.
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10th Feb 2007
The People's Occupation of the World's Biggest Coal Port. Over 500 (some say 1000) people gathered together and more than 200 took to the water to protest against plans to massively expand coal exports from Newcastle Harbour - the world's biggest coal port. Demonstrators called on the NSW Government to reject proposals for new coal mines and new coal loaders, and to take real action against climate change.
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3rd Coal Export Terminal Blockade
3rd Coal Export Terminal Blockade on the 22nd of March, 2010.
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ALP Headquarters Sit-In :: 23rd June 2009
Around 50 people attended a climate protest at Australian Labor Party Headquarters in Sydney this morning, angry at the NSW Government's budget decision to expand coal power in the state.
One of the protesters was arrested after around half of the group entered the 9th Floor offices of the ALP and refused to leave.
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Bayswater Power Station blockade 1st November 2008
http://www.risingtide.org.au/node/802
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coal train blockade
Rising Tide Newcastle blockaded a coal train on its way into Kooragang Coal Terminal. The blockade prevented all trains from entering or leaving for about 3 hours. Monday 19th November 2007.
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community walk-in 8th December
150 members of the community attempted to walk-in on coal infrastructure at Newcastle's Kooragang Island. The protest was part of an international day of action calling for urgent action against catastrophic climate change from the UN climate talks taking place in Bali.
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Community walk-in April 19th 2008
Close to 50 people walked on to the construction site of the proposed third Coal Export Terminal in Newcastle, shutting down all work on the site. Work was stopped for over an hour, sixteen people were arrested and charged with trespass.
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Dredge protest - 7th June 2009
On Sunday 7th June 2009, 13 kayakers disrupted a huge dredging operation underway in the Hunter River. Full story at www.risingtide.org.au/dredgeprotest
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Eraring power station protest, 22nd November 2008
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Fourth People's Blockade of the World's Biggest Coal Port
On Saturday March 21st, 2009, approximately 500 people converged on Newcastle Harbour to take part in the fourth People's Blockade of the World's Biggest Coal Port. The protest succeeded in stopping all coal ship movements for the day. Click here for more info.
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Greenhouse Mafia visits Greg Combet
On Friday, May 8, representatives from the world's coal corporations went to Cardiff to see Greg Combet, the government's Secretary for Climate Change. They were lobbying for free pollution permits, just three days after the government had given them a lot more.
We went along to expose that the coal industry had their black fingerprints all over the Government's pollution trading scheme.
The free permits are just one flaw in a scheme which is incapable of reducing carbon emissions, let alone being part of a global plan to avoid runaway climate change, the biggest threat that humanity faces.
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Nobbys Beach November 4th 2006
Over 800 Novacastrians braved miserable weather to spell out "Beyond Coal" with their bodies, at the mouth of the world's biggest coal port. Organised by Climate Action Newcastle
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NSW ALP Conference 100606
The NSW ALP held their annual conference at Sydney Town Hall. Rising Tide Newcastle went down for the day to join other groups demanding some real action from the ALP against climate change, starting by canning plans for the Anvil Hill coal mine.
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Peabody Energy occupation 28/07/06
Rising Tide Newcastle placed Peabody Energy under temporary new management, deciding to cancel Peabody's entry into the Hunter Valley coal chain.
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People's Occupation of the World's Biggest Coal Port
Newcastle Harbour, World Environment Day, 5th June 2006.
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Sandgate Rail Flyover Blockade
On 7th December 2005, Rising Tide Newcastle stopped construction on the Sandgate Rail Flyover. A few hours and a dozen arrests later (no joke, they charged everyone there), work recommenced on the rail upgrade - a key part of the massive expansion of Hunter coal exports.
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Sandgate Rail Flyover official opening
24th November 2006 - The Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile hides from the release of the final report of the Cole Inquiry, by coming to Newcastle to official open the Sandgate Rail Flyover. Rising Tide crashed the party, calling for, among other things, a Coal Inquiry.
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Winter Solstice 2006
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ALP Blockade 07
Rising Tide blockaded the NSW Headquarters of the Australian Labor Party, demanding an announcement on the proposed new Coal Export Terminal in Newcastle Harbour.
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ALP HQ Blockade - March 2005
The NSW Labor Government were gearing up to announce plans for new coal-fired power stations. Rising Tide invaded their Sydney headquarters and refused to leave. 3 members of the group chained themselvse to 2 entry doors, and the rest of the protesters occupied the foyer. The police came, and the rest was predictable...
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Gunnedah coal conference 20th and 21st Sep 2006
The coal companies and their mates intent on turning the Gunnedah Basin from amazing bushland and fertile plains into wall-to-wall coal mines, had a conference in Gunnedah to discuss these plans. They called their conference "The New Coal Frontier".
The local farming community held a protest outside the conference, and were joined by people from other coalmining regions of NSW, and a handful of climate change activists from Newcastle.
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Climate Disaster Zone
16th August 2006 - Newcastle Harbour declared Climate Disaster Zone. A road block was set up on the way into the Carrington coal loader, to alert drivers of the dangers of coal exports.
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Summer Solstice 2004
Our first ever Solstice event, and still the dearest in our hearts.
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ICCT Sydney 2004
The International Climate Change Taskforce met in Sydney in late 2004. While the objectives of the ICCT are laudible, environmentalists decided to hold a protest out the front anyway. Why? Because Bob Carr, then Premier of NSW, was talking up his green credentials as usual, waxing lyrically about the need to address climate change, while at the same time making plans to build new coal-fired power stations in NSW.
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Climate Carnivale Sydney - 08/06/05
Rising Tide Sydney organised a parade in Sydney, against the phony climate rhetoric of the G8 meeting in Scotland
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