Police Rescue officers have used a cherry-picker to remove an activist from a 10-metre high tripod, at a coal protest in the NSW Hunter Valley.
Activists entered the Hunter 8 Alliance compound at Rutherford before dawn today, erecting a wooden tripod to block access to the site, which is part of a Federally funded project to increase coal haulage capacity in the Hunter Valley. Activist Ned Haughton scaled the 10 metre high structure, where he remained for the next five and a half hours. Haughton has now been arrested will be charged with obstruction.