Charge dropped for foiled stunt at Woodside boss’s home

A conspiracy charges against a climate activist in the family house of Woodsyide Energy Boss fell.

40 -year -old Joana Partyka was accused of conspiracy after arresting three activists at the Perth house of Meg O’Neill, WoodSide CEO of the Anti -Terrorist Police in August 2023.

Disrupt Burup Hub member was not one of them and was accused of conspiracy in the following months.

In October, he was scheduled to fight the accusation at the hearing, but the prosecutors were evacuated on Wednesday when he withdrew the accusation at the WA Magistrates’ Court.

Partyka outside the court said that the conspiracy charges showed the ugly lengths that the authorities would go to silence their peaceful climate protesters.

“The police suddenly did not give a reason why they dropped the charges, but I think a reasonable interest is that there is no case against me.” He said.

“This is right.”

Partyka said that the claim had negatively affected his life for almost two years and relieved that the issue ended.

“This conspiracy against me was nothing more than a weapon aiming to keep me silent – a perverted and democratic abuse of legal tools designed to protect the public.”

7000 dollars were given for legal costs.

Jesse Noakes, Matilda Lane-Rose, Gerard Mazza and Emil Davey were found guilty to make illegal damage and unauthorized entry on the protest in the same court in February.

Mr. Davey and Mrs Lane-Rose were fined $ 2000 and spent conviction.

Noakes was fined $ 2500 and Mazza was fined $ 3500.

The police were aware of an ABC Four Corners television team aiming to filming the action before coming to Mrs. O’neill’s house in the early hours of the morning.

Wa Premier Roger Cook in the days after the incident, the action was carried out by the “extremist supporters who want to terrorize”, he said.

Mrs. O’Neill also said that the group was pro -excessive and that the action was designed to threaten him and his family.

Mr. Cook also wrote to ABC to complain about the allegation of “complexity” in the incident.

The Buroup Peninsula in the northwest of WA, known as Murujuga to traditional owners, includes the world’s largest and oldest Petroglif collection.

Disrupt claims to produce billions of tons of carbon dioxide by 2070 by 2070, the proposed expansion of WoodSide’s operations in the region.

In recent years, in the center of Perth, which forced the evacuation of approximately 2000 personnel against WoodSide, has carried out a series of actions, including the release of odor gas.

Partyka was sentenced to seven months of imprisonment for 12 months for this action.

In addition, Frederick McCubbin’s masterpiece of the WA Art Gallery in the Yellow paint in the Yellow paint sprayed the Woodsyide logo.