Green group seeks Afghan refuge

The mining industry is engaged in a bitter row with protest group Rising Tide over an anti-mining website, which the group launched to parody the NSW Minerals Council’s latest “spin” campaign.

The council succeeded earlier this week in having the website – miningnsw.com.au – shut down using copyright laws, but it has already sprung back onto the web.

The site is now hosted on servers located in Afghanistan, which could place it outside the jurisdiction of Australian law.

Ironically, the Minerals Council’s attempts to have the site shut down have served only to generate more publicity for Rising Tide’s anti-mining message, boasted Rising Tide spokesman Steve Phillips.

“The coal export industry constitutes NSW’s biggest single contribution to global climate change,” he said.

Sydney Morning Herald