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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)…
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Equinor’s plan to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight would be illegal in Norway
SYDNEY, April 24, 2019 – On the same day that Equinor’s poor safety record was exposed, the Norwegian oil giant has chosen to submit a plan to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight – a proposal that would be illegal in Norway. [1] Earlier today the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management…
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‘Non-conformities have been identified’: Equinor’s poor safety record revealed
“The PSA regards this as one of the most serious well control incidents on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) since Statoil’s Snorre A incident in 2004.” – PSA determination, 21 February 2017. SYDNEY, April 24, 2019 – New research by Greenpeace reveals the scale of international safety incidents on oil and gas mining ventures owned…
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REPORT: Offshore petroleum drilling and risk – A study of proposed deep-sea exploration drilling in the Great Australian Bight
Professor Tina Soliman Hunter, Professor of Petroleum Law and Director of Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law, outlines the risks of Norwegian oil giant Equinor’s plans to drill for oil…
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Bight project risks ‘exceptional’, says leading oil expert
SYDNEY, APRIL 18, 2019 – Norwegian oil company Equinor’s proposal to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight should not go ahead in its current form, a leading international petroleum law expert has warned today. In an independent report provided to Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Professor Tina Soliman Hunter, Professor of Petroleum Law and Director of…
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This will be a climate election
SYDNEY, April 11, 2019 – With Australia reeling from heatwaves, drought, mass fish kills, catastrophic floods and fires, the 2019 federal election will be a referendum on years of failure to act on climate change.With polling consistently indicating climate change is among voters’ top concerns [1], Australians will go to the ballot box on May…
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The pristine waters of the Philippines are being choked by single-use plastics
The Rainbow Warrior has discovered plastic littered throughout the heart of one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines.