Actor in mermaid outfit blocks works on Adani mine

An anti-Adani protester has staged a theatrical blockade this morning, dressing up as a mermaid and chaining themselves to a cattle grid.

Janie Gibson, dressed in a mermaid outfit, chained to a cattle grid prevents workers from entering the BMD work camp and continuing work on the Adani railway corridor.

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AN ADANI Mining spokeswoman said police removed the anti-coal activist just after 9am this morning and the road was reopened.

“This protest has had no impact on the overall delivery of the project,” she said.

“Day in day out our teams are working to build our Carmichael mine and rail project creating jobs for regional Queenslanders and opportunities for local businesses.

“Right now works include upgrading our airstrip, road and dam works, adding an extra 400 beds to our mine accommodation village and building three temporary rail accommodation camps totalling a further 1200 beds, where workers will stay while they build the railway.”

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An anti-Adani protester has staged a theatrical blockade this morning, dressing up as a mermaid and chaining themselves to a cattle grid.

Actor and activist, Janie Gibson, wished to send Adani and contractor BMD a message, claiming the Carmichael mine was a carbon bomb that would accelerate climate change.

Ms Gibson chained herself to the cattle grid 200km away from the coast to stop workers from entering the BMD work camp and continuing work on the railway corridor to Adani’s mine.

“Burning coal is the leading cause of climate change. We have seen Australia devastated by fires this summer and some of my family and friends were affected,” she said.

Ms Gibson grew up in the coal mining city of Newcastle and her grandfather was an employee at the BHP steelworks.

“While coal mining has been an important part of many Australian towns and communities, it is fast becoming a stranded asset. It is communities like these in rural Queensland that will be left high and dry; without groundwater, without jobs and without a Great Barrier Reef,” she said.

Originally published as Actor in mermaid outfit blocks works on Adani mine