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50 environment activists charged after 'end', scooping of coal train in Australia

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 SYDNEY: No less than 50 environmental change activists were accused of unlawful showing close to Australia's biggest coal trade port on Sunday after dissenters jumped on a coal train and scooped the coal. New South Grains state police said 47 demonstrators were accused of "rail hallway offenses", two with noxious harm and one with attacking a safety officer corresponding to the "unlawful dissent movement" close to the Port of Newcastle, nearly 170 km (105 miles) from the state capital Sydney. Environment lobbyist bunch Rising Tide, which asserted liability regarding the dissent, said captures were made when individuals were "involving the train". In a proclamation, the gathering expressed: "Twenty of the gathering scaled the train and utilized digging tools to dump coal from the loaded carts." Police said 14 activists had move onto a train carriage in a rail route passageway in the suburb of Sandgate. Environmental change is a spellbound iss