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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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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)…
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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…