PROMINENT anti-coal activist Steven James Phillips will appeal his sentence after he was found guilty of being involved in one of the biggest anti-coal protest in the city’s history.
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Magistrate Alan Railton found Phillips guilty of assisting a person climb on or attach to a vessel without authority after a hearing in Newcastle Local Court on Monday.
Phillips was fined $600, but a short time later filed a sentence appeal that will be heard in Newcastle District Court on December 15.
Phillips was one of 66 people arrested in Newcastle in May as part of a massive coal blockade.
In June, arborist and “professional climber” Scott Mathieson Mackenzie, 41, was fined $300 after he pleaded guilty to shutting down operations at Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group for nearly four hours during the protest.
