Petrina Harley, a Disrupt Burrup Hub and Socialist Alliance activist who blocked access to Woodside’s industrial plant in Western Australia’s Burrup Hub peninsula on July 12 last year faced court on June 16.

Harley asked the court to consider her actions under the “sudden or extraordinary” climate emergency defence, telling Green Left that her action was a reasonable response to “Woodside putting lives at risk”.

“Woodside’s emissions from Burrup Hub in the south west of Western Australia directly adds to the rise in global temperature that is causing catastrophic climate events and mass deaths.” She said WA Labor is not only “doing nothing” to stop it, “worse, it is subsidising Woodside’s pollution”.

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Many judges dismiss the climate emergency defence as a political stunt. They can decide a person undertook a reasonable response to an emergency, but in Harley’s case, the court did........

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