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New Bight oil permit makes mockery of crucial debate
Press release – 6 October, 2016Today’s announcement of a new oil exploration permit off South Australia – and the prospect of several other oilfields opening up – heightens the debate over BP’s controversial 2016 drilling plans in the Great Australian Bight.“If Karoon goes ahead, an oil spill from their permit area would pollute the coasts…
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The cinema ad BP doesn’t want you to see…
Let’s face it. BP is going to hate this… With Hollywood blockbuster Deepwater Horizon set to hit Australian cinemas next week, we’ve produced a trailer for the truth. With the support of people like you, now we’re going to take it to the big screens! Check out our biting trailer above that puts BP’s…
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BP’s Bight plans just too dangerous to be approved
Press release – 27 September, 2016Sydney, 28 September 2016 – The latest knockback to BP’s plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight signals their project is full of holes and too dangerous to be approved, Greenpeace Australia Pacific said today.“BP have again failed to gain approval to drill – this third strike should see…
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Drilling in the Bight: has BP learnt the right lessons from its Gulf of Mexico blowout?
This is an article written by Andrew Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University, first published in The Conversation. The Guardian newspaper recently hit a wall of non-response when it raised concerns about the possibility of an oil well blowout in BP’s proposed drilling operations in the Great Australian Bight. The facts are that bolts on…
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Time for BP to come clean on Bight plans
Press release – 11 September, 2016Sydney, 12 September 2016: Australia’s oil regulator and petroleum giant BP have failed to publicly address a major drilling safety issue, another sign that exploration in the Great Australian Bight is too dangerous and should be abandoned, said Greenpeace today.The Guardian Australia reported today that an oil rig destined for…
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We brought the Great Barrier Reef to Canberra
We did it! We delivered our petition with 32,000 names to the new Environment Minister in a spectacular way at Parliament House. We did it! We delivered our petition with 32,000 names to the new Environment Minister in a spectacular way at Parliament House. Our message for the minister, and the new government, was clear:…
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The scary things I’ve found as a turtle researcher – Dr Qamar Schuyler
I’ve spent a significant portion of the last 6 years forcing turtle poop through a sieve. Seriously. As a sea turtle researcher focused on understanding the what, why, and where of turtles eating harmful plastics, I’ve had to cut open hundreds of sea turtles stranded dead on beaches in Moreton Bay and the Queensland coast…
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We put the Reef before coal before coal kills the Reef.
This year the Great Barrier Reef experienced its worst bleaching event ever and the Australian public didn’t let the Reef down. The public said loud and clear they support coral rather than coal. The Australian public know the fossil fuel era is over. The public know there’s never been a more exciting time to save…
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There’s never been a more exciting time to save the Reef.
This year the Great Barrier Reef experienced its worst bleaching event ever. Almost a quarter of the Reef died. According to Reef scientists only an immediate and drastic reduction in the use of fossil fuels will save the Great Barrier Reef. Climate change has already warmed the world by more than a degree Celsius…
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Breaking: Greenpeace climbers at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s office
As you read this, I’m suspended from a streetlight, 15m off the ground, right outside Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Sydney office. With fellow volunteer, Christina, who is on another streetlight next to me, we just safely hung a banner with a strong message that Turnbull can’t miss. Here’s what it looks like: Turnbull’s legacy: Bleaching…