- By Hannah Ritchie
- BBC News, Sydney
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A protester is arrested for evacuating the office of Australia’s largest fossil fuel company using fake gas
Emma Sangalli’s heart still stops every time she sees a police car.
“It’s a feeling in your gut like panic. Total panic.
“It’s hard not to believe that you’re a criminal, that you’re deserving of this,” the Australian climate activist says.
Last month, the 25-year-old had her home in Western Australia raided by counter-terrorism police.
Her alleged crime – helping to flood a global fossil fuel giant’s office with non-toxic gas.
Stench gas, which smells like rotten eggs, is let off in mines to alert workers of danger. In this case, it was used by protesters to empty the Perth headquarters of Woodside Energy, to highlight the climate crisis.
Australia’s largest oil and gas firm says the…