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Arrests of abseiling anti uranium protestors at BHP annual general meeting

 Abseiling BHP protesters expected to be charged Financial Review 29 NOV 2012 Four abseilers who scaled the Sydney Convention Centre as part of an environmental protest outside BHP Billiton’s annual general meeting are expected to be charged…… Police at the scene told AAP they expected to charge the abseilers A Friends of the Earth spokeswoman told AAP the first pair of activists had been brought down by a police rescue team and taken to Surry Hills police station.
The last two had climbed back onto the roof voluntarily and had notyet been detained, she said.

Arabunna man Kevin Buzzacott was among protesters who gathered at Darling Harbour for the launch of an alternative annual report, Dirty Deeds, which was distributed to shareholders. The report focuses on the uranium and copper mine at Olympic Dam, South Australia, and the company’s proposed liquefied gas hub at James Price Point, in Western Australia.

Mr Buzzacott told AAP he would not be satisfied until the company pulled out of northern SA.

“I don’t want them up there destroying the country,” he said. “These
bastards are killing us out there in the desert.”

Mr Buzzacott believes Olympic Dam operations are causing locals to
fall ill, splitting families and damaging sacred sites.

“When you destroy Aboriginal sacred sites you destroy the people,” he
said. “A lot of people have gotten sick, a lot of people have died and
it is because of them.”
http://afr.com/p/business/companies/abseiling_bhp_protesters_expected_vCbr1rHvC81R5L7Z0IZ8YN

December 1, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News