GLOBAL warming protesters off New South Wales induced an inbound bulker to turn back from the country's biggest coal expert terminal, Reuters reports.
Police said 170 protesters were arrested for refusing to move from the shipping channel near the Port of Newcastle.
The port, some 105 miles from the state capital Sydney, is the largest bulk shipping port on Australia's east coast.
The Port of Newcastle said disruption due to the protest was 'minimal' but that an inbound vessel 'aborted due to people in the channel and has been rescheduled to come in'.
Port operations would continue as normal if police were able to keep the shipping channel clear, he said. Police said the harbour remained open despite 'some serious disruptions'.
The climate activist group Rising Tide, which organised the 50-hour protest, said the vessel forced to turn around was a coal ship.
Climate change is a divisive issue in Australia, the world's second-biggest exporter of thermal coal and the largest exporter of coking coal.
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Police said 170 protesters were arrested for refusing to move from the shipping channel near the Port of Newcastle.
The port, some 105 miles from the state capital Sydney, is the largest bulk shipping port on Australia's east coast.
The Port of Newcastle said disruption due to the protest was 'minimal' but that an inbound vessel 'aborted due to people in the channel and has been rescheduled to come in'.
Port operations would continue as normal if police were able to keep the shipping channel clear, he said. Police said the harbour remained open despite 'some serious disruptions'.
The climate activist group Rising Tide, which organised the 50-hour protest, said the vessel forced to turn around was a coal ship.
Climate change is a divisive issue in Australia, the world's second-biggest exporter of thermal coal and the largest exporter of coking coal.
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