Responding to the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to grant Adani a temporary injunction to silence anti-Adani activist Ben Pennings, Senator for Queensland and Greens spokesperson for mining and resources, Senator Larissa Waters, said:
\n\u201cI\u2019m disgusted that a coal billionaire has used the courts to silence anti-Adani climate activist, Galilee Blockade leader Ben Pennings.
\n\u201cWe live in a broken democracy where big companies will do whatever they can to silence opposition.
\n\u201cThe fact that Adani, a multinational coal mining giant convicted of breaching multiple environmental conditions, has thrown its resources into shutting up a local protestor just shows how terrified they are of public scrutiny.
\n\u201cOur civil laws are designed to protect against harm, so it\u2019s outrageous to see them used to attack those trying to bring the harm being done by Adani to light.
\n\u201cAdani has already bankrupted a traditional owner who dared to stand against them, now they\u2019re trying to do the same to Ben Pennings.
\n\u201cThis is the same multi-national coal company that can\u2019t get insurance, investors or even a railway because no-one wants anything to do with their climate-wrecking project.
\n\u201cAdani are having to self-fund, self-insure and now self-haul, because the market can see there is no demand or social licence for new coal.
\n\u201cAustralians want their climate and water protected from being pillaged by multi-national coal companies for private profit.
\n\u201cThe big parties may be dancing to the tune of\u00a0their coal donors, but the Greens will continue to stand with communities across the country\u00a0standing against\u00a0Adani\u2019s destructive path.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Responding to the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to grant Adani a temporary injunction to silence anti-Adani activist Ben Pennings, Senator for Queensland and Greens spokesperson for mining and resources, Senator Larissa Waters, said: \u201cI\u2019m disgusted that a coal billionaire has used the courts to silence anti-Adani climate activist, Galilee Blockade leader Ben Pennings. \u201cWe live in … Continue reading “Greens condemn Adani for silencing climate activist”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}