Protest and Civil Disobedience At Hazelwood
- 11 August 2005
- Around 50 student environmentalists and Greenpeace volunteers unfurled a "Quit Coal" banner outside the plant while 12 activists occupied the brown coal pit, with two locking themselves to coal dredging equipment. That dredger was not scheduled for work that day rendering the action symbolic at best.
- 6 November 2008
- A group of 7 people protesting against Australia's inaction on climate change walked onto the site of the Hazelwood power station and temporarily stopped one conveyor belt which carry coal from the mine to the power station. No production was lost due to good reserve bunker stocks of coal itself.
- 28 March 2009
- A group of around 30 people took part in a rally at the power station ahead of the 2009 Earth Hour. Two protesters chained themselves to a conveyor belt, briefly disrupting the supply of coal between the Hazelwood mine and the power plant. Again, electricity production was not disrupted from the power station. Three people were charged by Victoria Police for unspecified reasons.
- 21 May 2009
- 14 Greenpeace members illegally entered the site and thought they had temporarily shut down coal production after chaining themselves to an excavator from 7am onwards. That 'excavator' was out for routine maintenance and again, no production from either mine or station was lost. All seven were later charged by Victoria Police.
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