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Subscriber only A musician has been arrested after allegedly locking himself to equipment at a Central Queensland construction site in a stand against mining. Musician and student Morgan Heenan allegedly locked himself to concrete batching equipment at Bravus Mining and Resources Carmichael rail construction site near Glenden in Central Queensland on Monday morning. Police were called to the alleged incident, which disrupted works at the site, about 6am on May 24.
Protester disrupts work at CQ rail construction site: Musician and student Morgan Heenan has locked himself to concrete batching equipment at Bravus Mining and Resources Carmichael rail construction site near Glenden on May 24, 2021.
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Police are investigating a complaint of an alleged hit and run involving a Carmichael rail site worker and an anti-coal activist.
In a statement posted on the Frontline Action on Coal Facebook page, retired lawyers Barbara Guthrie and Maureen Kingshott said a Bravus contractor deliberately hit a woman protesting at an Adani works depot but also suggested it drove by “narrowly missing” her.
“(A car) slowed to turn off into the access area, then accelerated and drove straight at the banner holders, knocking one woman to the ground,” the statement said.
“The driver’s action was clearly deliberate.”