BY IAN CROUCH
Climate protesters are again blocking the Hunter Rail Line as they target coal supply to the Port of Newcastle.
Two female activists aged 16 and 64 climbed onto the top of a coal train at Singleton before dawn on Thursday morning.
The Premier wants to meet with Facebook's parent company to discuss a plan to block the demonstrators from being able to live stream
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A climate activist who suspended himself over railway tracks at Branxton for more than five hours has been granted bail.
22-year-old Angus Hearn began his protest just before 4.00am on Wednesday, halting coal, freight and passenger trains.
He was safely removed from a tripod structure at about 9.35am and faced Cessnock Court charged with causing obstruction to railway locomotive or rolling stock and enter enclosed non-agricultural lands.
He was granted conditional bail to face Singleton Court on July 13.
Meanwhile, 18-year-old Canberra woman Grace Ilbery faced Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday after allegedly gluing herself to a railing at the Kooragang Coal Loader on Tuesday night.
Magistrate John Chicken told the court Ilbery's offending was incredibly dangerous and put her life and the lives of emergency services at risk.
She's also been granted conditional bail to face court again on July 5.
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