PROTESTERS against the exploration of brown coal in Bacchus Marsh chained themselves for an hour in the Melbourne office of the mining company’s financial underwriter yesterday.
The move followed a rally held earlier in the day on the corner of Collins and Swanson streets in protest against Mantle Mining, the Western Australian company behind the project.
Rally organiser and Friends of the Earth, Australia spokesman Shawn Murray said the chaining was an attempt to send a message to the entire financial community to withdraw from the program.
“Four people locked themselves to each other and sat in the mining company’s underwriter Cygnet Capital’s foyer on the 10th floor (in Melbourne),” Mr Murray said.
The Courier.com.au
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