From ABC Online

15th November 2006

Logging protesters escape criminal charges

Police have not pressed charges against the protesters who chained themselves to a log truck in Hobart's CBD this afternoon.

About 20 protesters held up a lane of traffic in Macquarie Street to protest against police dismantling a long-term tree sit in the Weld Valley.

Police borrowed bolt cutters from a nearby work site to remove two protesters from the truck.

Spokeswoman Yula Majewski says the group wanted to bring the protest from the forest into the city.

"We basically stopped a log truck in the middle of Macquarie Street and had two activists lock onto it, in order to protest against the imminent threat to the Weld Valley which was raided this morning by police, and the camp was half dismantled."

Police arrested one man when they dismantled the tree sit in the Weld Valley this morning.