Activist uses ‘lock-on’ device to stop work at Adani site

A climate activist has brought work at Adani’s Carmichael mine site to a halt just one day after the State Government introduced new laws targeting ‘lock-on’ devices.

CLIMATE activists are stepping up their challenge against the State Government’s new laws, with one environmentalist locking himself to a drilling rig in North Queensland this morning.

Frontline Action on Coal activist and father John Williams locked himself to a drilling rig using a device, which has stopped work, according to a media release by the group.

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A spokeswoman for the environmental group said the device was one that would be outlawed by the Palaszczuk Government’s new laws.

“It’s just a standard lock-on device, it has a long use in civil disobedience,” the spokeswoman said.

John Williams attached to the drilling rig using a ‘lock-on device’. Picture: Frontline Action on Coal.

She slammed the new laws as showing the government’s lack of priorities when it came to the climate.

“I think (the laws) are unreasonable and that the government should be focusing its energy on taking rapid, urgent action on the climate crisis,” she said.

“She’s targeting the wrong people. It’s time to listen to the people.”

Frontline Action on Coal released these images of their protest at the site of the controversial Carmichael Mine. Picture: Frontline Action on Coal.

The spokeswoman said it was unclear whether Mr Williams had been arrested, but said Frontline Action on Coal was committed to disrupting work on these sites only by nonviolent means.

“Non-violence is a core value of climate activists doing this work at the moment,” she said. “Civil disobedience has been a part of history and has been used safely and effectively.”

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She said her group were fighting for those who were “losing their lives and livelihoods right now due to climate change.”