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ExxonMobil given the OK to drill Australia’s deepest-ever offshore oil & gas well
SYDNEY, 19 June 2019: ExxonMobil has been granted environmental approval this week to drill Australia’s deepest-ever oil and gas well in a move slammed by Greenpeace Australia Pacific. The Sculpin well will be drilled in the Bass Strait to a depth of 2300 metres, and will be even deeper than Equinor’s controversial Stromlo-1 well proposed…
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Risk to our beaches is simply not worth it
A paddle out event in Tasmania this weekend has helped to focus the local communities attention on the threats to the states beaches from an oil spill. Drone footage of Bunda Cliffs in the Great Australian Bight. The Bight is a pristine stretch of ocean off the southern coastal fringe of Western Australia, South Australia…
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Bight expert report: ‘overconfidence precedes catastrophic failure’
Sydney, May 22, 2019: Sydney Environment Institute’s submission on Equinor’s Environmental Plan raises significant concerns that need urgent consideration by oil industry regulator NOPSEMA and the government, said Greenpeace Australia Pacific. The submission, authored by some of Australia’s leading petroleum industry experts, highlights an inadequate level of detail in Equinor’s plans to both prevent oil spills…
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A new political climate. Where to from here?
Australia can still have a flourishing future. The government is not the country. Huge amounts of climate action can occur outside of what the Commonwealth government does. Cities, towns, states, territories, businesses, institutions of all kinds… all of these can take action. Students in Vienna went on the street to strike, demonstrate and demand politicians…
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Greenpeace welcomes ALP’s ‘moratorium’ on drilling in the Bight
SYDNEY, May 16, 2019: Greenpeace Australia Pacific has today welcomed the Labor Party’s new commitment that a Shorten Labor government would block Equinor’s oil drilling approval from proceeding in the Great Australian Bight until an independent scientific study into the impacts of an oil spill is completed.The independent study will be commissioned by the Federal…
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An Open Letter from the Ocean Elders
The Bight is an extraordinary marine environment: Will you protect it from dangerous oil drilling? A group of Ocean Elders including Richard Branson, Jane Goodall, Gerry Lopez, and Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, as well as three Australian Nobel Laureates have today written to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten…
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Five Amazing Animal Mums
Happy Mother’s Day! Please enjoy these amazing animal mums and their adorable babes. Two polar bears on the ice in Hudson Bay. Mother with a young. Eisbaeren (Ursus Maritimus) auf dem Eis in der Hudson Bay. Mutter mit Jungtier.|Humpback whale with young (Megapetra noveangliae). Buckelwal (Megapetra noveangliae).|||A handout photo from Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP)…