Whitehaven Coal has once again gotten approval for a coal mine expansion through approval of the Narrabri Stage 3 extension. Due to its proximity to the Narrabri coal seam gas, this mine will destroy 491 hectares of endangered koala habitat, and hundreds more for other threatened wildlife and plants. The Narrabri coal expansion will directly emit an average of 1.5m tonnes of CO2-equivalent a year, making it the dirtiest thermal coal mine in Australia 

Whitehaven Coal and its investors, lenders, and joint venture partners need to hear loudly and clearly that their expansion plans are terrifying, and to work with such a company is to take on #RiskyBusiness. We need to show up in force to tell them that companies like Whitehaven Coal do not have the social license to expand their koala-killing, climate-wrecking coal mines in Australia.

On Halloween Eve, Whitehaven will be entertaining their investors at their Annual General Meeting. Join us at 9:30am on 30th October outside The Fullerton Hotel in Martin Place to let Whitehaven Coal know that if their coal expansion is terrifying, our movement can also get spooky.

Let’s give Whitehaven’s investors and stakeholders a Halloween to remember. Arrive in your spookiest best (dead koalas! corporate zombies! pirates!) and with your mysterious and kookiest friends.