Scoop Images – Schedule 4 Mining Protest

Tuesday, 30 March 2010, 2:08 pm
Article: Rory MacKinnon

Scoop Images – Schedule 4 Mining Protest

Scoop Images: “Our wind is fierce/Our sunshine’s strong/Mining in parks/will not go on!”

The chant boomed across Parliament’s grounds as hundreds gathered Tuesday to protest Government plans to allow mining in Schedule 4 protected conservation lands. Scoop was there.

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