The first shipment of high-quality coal from Bravus Mining & Resources’ Carmichael mine has been assembled at the North Queensland Export Terminal in Bowen, ready for export as planned.
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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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“It’s distressing to see the mine and see the change in the landscape,” Mr McAvoy said.
“We don’t know what damage the mine will do to our sacred Doongmabulla Springs.
“But that’s why I organised this event, to bring people to our land and raise awareness of the destruction Adani (Bravus) is doing to it.” Participants in the Tour De Carmichael. Picture: supplied
The tour had previously stopped at a number of significant sites to the Wangan and Jagalingou people, and camped at “Dalgayu Dina”, the site on Bravus’ pastoral lease where Mr McAvoy and others have built a corroboree ground and campsite.
Anti-coal protesters will take part in a Tour De Carmichael 105km bicycle ride to a mine site in Central Queensland in a show of opposition to the project.
More than 100 cyclists left the Gregory Highway on Tuesday morning to begin their ride to the Carmichael mine site.
In a statement, event organisers said the next five days of their journey would include a guided tour of Wangan and Jagalingou country with Coedie McAvoy, as well as passing Bravus Mining and Resources’ Carmichael mine site.
But a Bravus spokeswoman has slammed the group for “putting their own safety and that of our workers at risk”.