Western Australia Media Releases
- Investors warned off new Kimberley coal project - January 29, 2012
- State Government must not waste $120 million on James Price Point ‘highway to nowhere’ - December 20, 2011
- Environment groups launch advertising campaign to keep parties honest - November 24, 2011
- Australia's north and northwest teeming with rare and threatened marine life – new reports - October 18, 2011
- Broome Supporters asked to 'Vote for the Environment' - October 07, 2011
- New Eighty Mile Beach Marine Park Plan welcomed - September 30, 2011
- Broome blockade reaches 100 day milestone - September 14, 2011
- Martin Ferguson pushed James Price Point decision - September 01, 2011
- Kimberley National Heritage listing fails to protect spectacular reefs - August 31, 2011
- Heritage Listing won’t protect the Kimberley - August 31, 2011
The Wilderness Society has today issued an Alert warning investors of the risks of a new Kimberley coal project. Coal miner Rey Resources faces objections to its mining lease in the Mining Warden's court tomorrow.
Yesterday’s announcement by Woodside that it would not be able to meet a 2012 deadline for a final investment decision on the LNG hub James Price Point was another indication that the private sector is having serious reservations about the financial viability of the project.
The Wilderness Society, the Environment Centre NT and the Australian Marine Conservation Society have launched an advertising campaign today to increase the pressure on our political leaders to protect the Territory’s unique natural environment.
Two new reports released today, Wild Blue Yonder: Fifteen underwater places for protection in Australia's north west and Twelve Tropical Sea Treasures: Underwater icons of Northern Australia reveal critical sites for rare and threatened sealife off Australia's north and northwest coast.
The protection of the Kimberley environment is shaping up to be the most important issue in the forthcoming Broome local government election.
WA Conservation groups today welcomed the release of the draft plan for the new Eighty Mile Beach Marine Park but warned that large scale industrialisation of the region still threatened marine life of the Pilbara and Kimberley.
The Wilderness Society has congratulated the Broome community for achieving a major milestone in their brave defence of the natural, social and cultural heritage values of Broome and the west Kimberley.
The leaked US embassy cables about the James Price Point gas plant show that Resources Minister Martin Ferguson pushed the Browse Basin joint-venture partners into the controversial development.
Fishing and Conservation groups are alarmed over Federal government plans to allow trawling of an area one eighth the size of Tasmania in the pristine Kimberley at the end of the month.
The Wilderness Society today said a national heritage listing would not protect the Kimberley if Australia’s largest single industrial development, Woodside’s proposed gas hub north of Broome, is constructed.
