Two climate protesters in WA's north avoid having to pay police more than $33,000 in compensation after they were found guilty of blocking access to the country's biggest LNG in November 2021.
abc.net.au/news/climate-activists-avoid-paying-police-concrete-drum-protest/101970910Two climate protesters who used a caravan to block access to Australia's biggest gas hub have avoided paying Western Australian police more than $33,000 in compensation.Two protesters who blocked access to gas operations in WA's north will not have to pay compensation to police
In November 2021, Petrina Jane Harley and Elizabeth Ruth Burrow cemented their arms into a concrete drum inside the caravan, in protest over Woodside's $16.5 billion Scarborough gas project on the Burrup Peninsula. Magistrate Cillian Stockdale told the court at the time that Burrow and Harley's actions "jeopardised" the community.
Sergeant James told the Karratha Magistrates Court in January that police would be seeking $33,000 in compensation from Burrow and Harley to cover these costs.
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