Iluka Mining protest stopped
And now an apology to our listeners, a technical glitch prevented Friday’s show from going to air, which meant that amongst other things we couldn’t bring you this update on an issue covered over the past few weeks by The Wire. Protesters had been blocking the access route to a mining exploration site in South Australia for around two weeks. Well on Friday they were ordered by the state government to stop that action and leave the site. Members of the Far Western division of the Kokatha Mula were blockading a road through the Yumbarra Conservation Park in the northwest of South Australia, claiming they had not been consulted by the company involved, Iluka Mining, about the new mine. But the mining company’s spokesman, Robert Porter, maintains his company has have consulted with the legitimate native title claimants of the Far western group, and that the protesters represent a break away group. One of the protesters, Bronwyn Coleman Sleep, denied the company’s claims.