Three protesters suffered heatstroke and fatigue symptoms after locking themselves to machinery at a Central Queensland quarry.
Alexander Braham Bloom, 32, Leon Walker Pateman, 23, and Pia Pascual Truslove, 33, each used a sleeping dragon attachment device to halt operations at Bravus Mining and Resources’ (Adani) quarry, located about 160km north of Clermont.
Police arrived at 9am and told them to release but they refused to do so in efforts to protest their views against Bravus.
Sgt Cramp said police needed to cut off the devices with care, which required certain equipment that didn’t arrive at the site until midday. Clermont Magistrates Court.
A 69-year-old grandfather joined a second protester in locking themselves to machinery at Bravus’ (Adani) Central Queensland Carmichael Mine site.
David Ross McRae, 69 and Samuel James Pottenger, 29, both used attachment devices, known as sleeping dragon devices, to lock themselves to a 670-tonne excavator in the pit, in order to stop work at the site.
Clermont Magistrates Court heard police were called to the property, about 200km north west of Clermont, at 6.30am on November 12, 2020.
When police arrived some three hours later, they were informed the site had been shut down with machinery unable to be used to avoid any injury at the site.