Western Downs AlliancePeoples Blockade-Day 4
We hired a helicopter to do an arial reconnaissance in our area. The destuction and what is planned for the residential estates is an abomination and totally immoral.
It would seem the construction of the pipeline isn’t going quite as QGC planned.
There is a spider trencher(one of only two in Australia) sitting idle on QGC land.
QGC has accused residents of throwing rocks and sabotaging machinery by removing wheel nuts from a grader.
I know we have SUPER GRANNY but we do draw the line at sabotage.
The residents involved in the Western Downs Alliance blockade are all in agreement of a NON VIOLENT PROTEST and find it totally unneccessary to resort to sabotage to get at QGC. QGC’s own employees/contractors are giving us enough ammunition to use against them. The public doesnt like multinational companies who use violence(two of our protestors had painful interactions with QGC employees/contractors vehicles) to intimidate protestors or who arrest 70 year old great grandmothers!
Perhaps QGC and the police should keep an open mind and instead of blaming all of QGC’s woes on The Western Downs Alliance protestors,they should investigate properly before making unsubstantiated claims.
At the moment we are playing the waiting game until QGC get closer to moving onto the estates, and are gaining more and more support as we wait it out. Our people are ready to go at a moments notice, so we are keeping an eye out and the minute there is activity, we’ll be ready!
Thanks to all the media, people are beginning to realise the seriousness of our fight.
This is the test case!
If they are successful in turning residential estates into a gasfield, it will set a presedence for all other residential areas, and prime agricultural farmland.
If you wish to join us please contact us before arriving so more details can be given.
Debbi- 07 46653999 Michael- 0746694864 Drew-07 38462409 (h) 0428 487110
Also I would like to give a HUGE THANKYOU to Father Jack for his support and providing us with some food supplies to feed all of our supporters!
Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Persistence will win the day. QGC have no authority, moral or otherwise to do what they are.
The corruption and destructiveness of these activities will soon be exposed to the world.
What was the Premier’s envoy, Bill Date urgently doing down at Tara yesterday? Perhaps panicking that the government sophistry was not going to plan?
Surely Bligh has realised dragging people off their land won’t do much for her popularity. The police certainly have, they’d all disappeared by yesterday afternoon.