Aurizon sues environmental activists and seeks $375,000 after protests stop coal trains
by Ben Smee from Environment | The Guardian on (#4B007)
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The freight rail operator Aurizon has launched legal action against five environmental activists and is seeking $375,000 in compensation for a series of recent protests that stopped coal trains.
Aurizon lodged a statement of claim in the Queensland supreme court in January against the group Frontline Action on Coal (Flac) Incorporated, seeking "user-rent" from the organisation as damages for five separate protests in December and January that blocked the rail line.
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