AR-News: (AU) Environment groups continue protest in Gippsland

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1033539.htm




Victorian environment groups are continuing to blockade logging tracks to old 
forest coups in Gippsland. 
About 40 forest protesters have blocked access to coups into the Thomson 
Catchment, arguing it is costing Melbourne's water supply 1,000 litres of water 
per second. 
The Wilderness Society's Megan Clinton says it will be hard to move the group.
One is locked on to a pole in the ground and others are dangling in tree sits.
"If anything's moved, the car in the road with the person lying in it, or 
those two poles on either side of the car, then the person will fall out of the 
tree sit," she said.
This afternoon police started breaking up a two week old fort of the Goongera 
Environment Centre on the Ferntree Track. 
The centre says police took their radio communications this afternoon and 
says it expects arrests to be imminent.




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not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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