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We have been offered the opportunity to take this issue to an international forum, but we need your help to make the most of it.

As a Wilderness Society supporter you would be aware of the environmentally damaging proposal to build a huge LNG processing facility on the Kimberley coast at James Price Point near Broome.

An artists impression of the future for the Kimberley coast - if we don't stop polluting industry from going ahead in the world's largest Humpback whale nursery area..

The State Government is working with Woodside and its joint venture partners – including Chevron and Shell -  to try to impose this ‘thin edge of the wedge’ industrial project on unwilling locals and Indigenous people, despite the fact that there are better alternatives, such as offshore processing or existing industrial sites in the Pilbara.

A collaboration of worldwide groups who are fighting irresponsible Chevron practices all over the planet have invited The Wilderness Society to send a representative to the Chevron Annual General Meeting in Houston, Texas on the 26^th of May. They have even generously agreed to cover international airfares and find billet accommodation.

Experienced Kimberley campaigner Josh Coates will represent The Wilderness Society and the true costofchevron group has also independently invited Kimberley Traditional Owner Neil McKenzie, who featured recently on our TV advertisement opposing the gas plant, to attend and give an Indigenous perspective.

The Wilderness Society has already contributed a chapter to the soon to be released Chevron Alternative Annual Report 2010, but we want to do even more to bring the potentially disastrous Kimberley LNG proposal to the attention of the international community.

Can you help us?

We hope to contribute US$500 to the printing of the Alternate Annual Report and need to cover the incidental costs of travel to Houston to attend the Chevron AGM and engage the media and then fly to California to work with the Sea Turtle Restoration Network to raise awareness about the Kimberley via media work and a public meeting.

Your donation of $25, $50, $100 or more will go directly to helping make multinational oil and gas companies and the International public aware of the issue. We plan that  your donation will be massively value-added through the support of people around the world, as they learn about what is at stake in one of the world’s last great wild places
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Please donate now. To allow your donation to be tax deductible (end of financial year soon!) the Conservation Council of WA will be managing your donation via the secure givenow.com.au site http://www.givenow.com.au/ccwakimberley .

The Wilderness Socitey looks forward to sending a personal report back to each and every person who donates.

Thank you!

Peter Robertson,
State Coordinator, The Wilderness Society WA

Stop Press! - The WA Premier Colin Barnett was recently in the US, including Houston, talking up the WA fossil fuel industry and making misleading statements to industry and the public regarding the environmental credentials of the State Government. He even had the gall to tell industry representatives that the Traditional Owners of the proposed gas hub site “have agreed to the location” when in fact the existing ‘in principle’ agreement is the subject of a legal challenge from Traditional Owners. We need to let the Americans and others hear the truth!
Meanwhile as oil spews onto the American coast from the BP offshore drilling disaster (BP is another Kimberley LNG joint venture partner) and American politicians are reexamining offshore drilling, the Australian Government is charging ahead! We have already had a major disaster off the Kimberley coast, enough is enough - we need to take our message global, please help us.