Peter Spencer’s Hunger Strike against unconstitutional Carbon fuelled actions by the Government
High up on a 300m wind monitoring tower Farmer Peter Spencer “Saarahnlee” NSW Australia on the 1st December 2009 as a last resort commenced an indefinite hunger strike until the Australian government meets his demands.
Basically Peter claims that the Government has unconstitutionally stolen 109 million Ha of agricultural land from Australian farmers, being that they have not been compensated for the 22% CO2 reduction that they have contributed to to meet the Kyoto emission targets. Peter has been arguing his case for over 10 years through the courts and is now taking his stand to the people, where the true power of a democracy lies.
Peter Spencer Hunger Strike group page on Agmates
Peter Spencer’s letter to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
Peter Spencer’s story and background information
Listen to an exclusive interview of Peter Spencer with Mal Davies from SOS News
Love for Life post with some comments on Peter Spencer’ story
Media Coverage
Farmer hunger strike to protest ‘carbon theft’
Court Cases
Spencer v Commonwealth of Australia [2007] FCA 1415
Spencer v Commonwealth of Australia [2007] FCA 1787
Spencer v Commonwealth of Australia [2008] FCA 1256
Spencer v Commonwealth of Australia (No 2) [2008] FCA 1378
Spencer v NSW Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Water [2008] NSWSC 1059
Spencer v Commonwealth of Australia [2009] FCAFC 38
January 2nd, 2010 at 2:17 am
Pity Kevins to gutless to talk! If Peter dies then to my mind the PM has a direct involvment in his death, neglect if nothing else.
Kyoto is an admitted useless measure and should be scrapped immediately.
Our Farmers bear the brunt of Howards stupidity and Rudds cupidity!
And Rudds so suckered by AGW propaganda he is still willing to sign more of our nations livelihood away for NO good reason.
see the exposes on Patchauris corrupt dealings now breaking (not the MSM) online Telegraph Delingpole.
January 7th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Read the court cases…
There was a valid offer on the table for the farm at $2,170,000 (market value for the farm…which the NSW government had no obligation to provide). If Peter was allowed to complete the land clearing that was prevented by the NSW legislation, the market value of the farm would have increased to $2,400,000.
So,like all things,this is about the money. Peter feels he is being short changed, and has created this conspiracy theory of “Big government” acting illegally. Yet it appears the NSW Government has operated within the law (it really has nothing to do with Kevin). For mine, I don’t know whether $230,000 is worth your life.
January 10th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
The offer of “$2,170,000″ was the value AFTER the changes, not the value before, so that argument is dodgy, to say the least.
Fair Compensation would be calculated on the original value, not the devalued value, as has been done here.
This was just a weak attempt to make him go away, else every farmer would have been offered compensation.