A well-respected Morpeth businessman is seeking compensation from Rising Tide following two cruise liner cancellations in Newcastle this month.

Viking Venus and Viking Orion’s scheduled stopovers in the region have been terminated in recent weeks due to the climate activist group’s planned “protestival” in Camp Shortland and Foreshore Park from Thursday 27 November to Tuesday 2 December.

The organisation also plans to blockade the Port of Newcastle again.

But, Rising Tide’s actions – and subsequent financial impact on local ventures – have earned the ire of Trevor Richards OAM.

Trevor Richards OAM at the Morpeth Gallery.

Representing the Morpeth Gallery, Morpeth Antiques, Morpeth Ginger Beer Factory and Servants Quarters Tearooms, he took aim at the protestors’ lack of empathy towar

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