Jul 16
Please try to come and support your community:
What: YWYS to relocate Community Assembly caravan
When: Wednesday 16th July @ 9.30 AM
Where: YWYS– Caravan /Community Assembly site at the desalination site. Lower Powlett Road, Wonthaggi.
Why: Your Water Your Say were forcibly evicted from their site of over two months on instruction of the DSE on Monday 14th July
YWYS will, on Wednesday, be moving the community assembly caravan out of the site to a new undisclosed location where the campaign and peaceful protest
will continue as vigorously as before.
The DSE claims safety issues as the prime reason for the road closure and the removal of the caravan, so YWYS will ensure that safety is maintained and will not
be an issue into the future.
Jul 15
Staff writers
NINE protesters were arrested in an angry confrontation with police near the site of Victoria’s $3 billion desalination project yesterday.
About 20 police officers confronted 50 locals with orders to remove their information caravan from an unsealed road 500m from the site near Wonthaggi.
One woman who chained herself to the caravan was cut free by search-and-rescue squad officers and carried screaming from the scene.
Police also removed three protesters from the roof of the caravan. One woman shouted, “I’m just doing my bit for the environment” as she was carried away.
Herald Sun - Nine arrested in desalination plant showdown
Jul 14
Please follow this link to the ABC news website ABC news - Woman charged, eight arrested over desal protest
Click on that site’s link “Video: Police forcibly removed up to 40 protesters from the desalination plant at Wonthaggi. (ABC News)” to watch the news report.
May 29
Please follow this link to the ABC Gippsland website and have a look at the photos and listen to the interview.
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ABC Gippsland - Camping out for a cause
