- Shop at the Sea Turtle Store
- Ways to Donate

Defending Turtles and Songlines in Australia’s Kimberley

While the tide is turning in favor of protecting sea turtles and songllines from a massive petroleum plant along the Kimberley coast in Australia, the battle is far from over. Every day activists on the front lines are taking actions to protect their homes and country.

Just last week, the Western Australian government decided to give final environmental approval to the project over the objections of more than 240 official appeals, including one lodged by SeaTurtles.org about harm to vulnerable sea turtle species. (Read more here).

Now it is up to Australia's federal Environment Minister Tony Burke to stop the gas madness and halt the project once and for all.

Please take action below to write Australian Environment Minister Tony Burke.

Do More! Donate and we'll split your contribution directly with the Broome No Gas Community!

Photo of climbers hanging banners on towering dirilling rigs locked inside the Woodside Petroleum equipment compound along the Manari Road that goes to Walmadan (James Price Point) by Damian Kelly.

Subject:

Your Letter:

Now that conservationists’ calls to protect the Kimberley from a massive natural gas plant have been soundly rejected by the state of Western Australia, I am calling on you to immediately step in and halt its construction and siting at James Prices Point near Broome.

As you know from your visits there, no level of strict conditions will prevent massive damage to sea turtles, whales, dugongs, Aboriginal cultural sites, unique wildlife and plants and ancient dinosaur footprints in this remote and wild country.

Please realize that people like me from around the world are now watching closely and supporting the hundreds of Australians on the front lines of the resistance to the Browse Basin project at James Price Point (Walmadan).

If you allow this controversial fossil fuel project to move forward, it will forever tarnish the image and environmental leadership of Australia. Tourism will also suffer as fewer of us visit the Kimberley.

In Broome, the gas plant will irreversibly destroy people’s livelihoods, cultural lives and the lives of protected wildlife and rare plants found nowhere else in the world.

I ask you to put future generations and the health of the environment above the profit motives of Big Oil and short-sighted politicians. Put an end to the flawed and corrupt process that has severely undermined the public trust.

Please help lead the way to a clean energy future by denying environmental approval for the Browse Basin natural gas facility at James Price Point.

Thank you for your consideration and I look forward to your response.

Sincerely yours.

Environment Minister Tony Burke

Australian Government
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT , 2601
AU

First Name*

Last Name*

Email*

Street

Street 2

City

State/Province

Zip/Postal Code*

Country*

Non US State or Province

Non-US Postal Code

For daily updates from the frontlines of the campaign to save the Kimberley, go to the Broome No Gas Community Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/BroomeNoGas

Californians - Help Pass the Leatherback Bill in the Senate!

	E-Mail This Page
	Printer Safe Version
	Site Map