AFTER 20 months, 4000 visitors, a Four Corners program and countless newspaper stories, the Caroona blockade will finally be lifted today.
The Caroona Coal Action group will move away from “Rossmar Park” at 12.30pm where members have been sitting since July, 2008, to stop BHP accessing fertile Liverpool Plains farming country.
Fifteen State and Federal politicians have visited the blockage, however, the NSW Mineral Resources minister, Ian Macdonald, was yet to visit the site.
Caroona Coal Action Group spokesman, Tim Duddy, “Rossmar Park”, said the NSW Supreme Court’s recent decision against mining companies, which have not provided enough information to banks about exploration, gave more protection to farmers.
“We’ve had legal advice and we’re lifting the blockade,” Mr Duddy said this morning.
* Full details in this week's The Land, March 25.
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