Never mind chaining yourselves to their machinery and lying down if front of their bulldozers, here's where the mining companies really hurt:
1. April’s fool press release
A teenager sent out a fake press release on April Fool’s Day claiming to be the CEO of gas drilling company Metgasco and announced the company was pulling out of northern NSW.
Kudra Falla-Ricketts, who sent fake statement from her school email address to local journalists, soon found herself hauled in front of the principal and could face more serious consquences.
Metgasco chief executive Peter Henderson said Kudra's fake press release could have had a ''devastating'' effect on shareholders and the prank has been referred to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Under corporations law, false or misleading statements can attract a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail, a A$765,000 ($825,435) fine, or both.
Metgasco was forced to release a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange stating the email was a hoax and there was no change to its operations in the Clarence-Moreton Basin.
No trading took place before the ASX statement was issued and the company's share price was not affected.
Hit them in the shareholder's hip pocket 
"Hit them in the shareholder's hip pocket"
Why IF? "them" being?
The only people that might lose as a result of an event like this would be shareholders who sold when the price was down, not the company, also for any sale there would be a buyer who would gain.
However I doubt if anyone would/did take the letter seriously, check the spelling, grammar, format, changing to a completely different technology, and having purported to have originated from the CEO (Henderson), the not so bright Ricketts mentions at the bottom she is the author.
Perhaps a repeat year at high school might be called for!
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