BY IAN CROUCH
For the 5th day in a row, an activist has stopped operations on the Hunter Valley coal chain.
A grandmother has scaled a stacker reclaimer at Kooragang Island on Friday morning and locked herself onto the infrastructure.
It comes after a 64-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl were charged for climbing onto a stopped coal train next Singleton Railway Station yesterday morning.
The woman has spent a night in the cells pending her appearance at Muswellbrook Court today.
The teenager was granted conditional bail to face the children's court on July 17.
EARLIER:
Two climate change activists have been charged following an unauthorised protest at Singleton.
A 64-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl climbed on top of a stopped coal train near Singleton Railway Station early Thursday morning.
They were arrested and charged with cause obstruction to railway locomotive or rolling stock and enter enclosed non-agricultural lands.
The woman was refused bail to face Singleton Court today (Friday 23 June 2023).
The teenager was granted strict conditional bail to face the children's court on July 17.
