There is an opportunity to have your message recognized.

I truley hope peoples complacency on this subject will not be the norm about this issue.

When: Saturday 2nd May @ 11am sharp

Where: Perth foreshore, Riverside Drive, Perth (near the Belltower, and Ferris Wheel)

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Support this community action!
The Kimberley Whale Coast is under threat, and it is critical that the
community demonstrates opposition to the outrageous plan to build
an industrial gas complex on the pristine Kimberley Coast.
Please wear a red t-shirt on the day.

Link:- www.wilderness.org.au/news-events

here we go again.
Lots of Perth people who have never been there spouting crap about which they know nothing putting stupid bumper stickers on their cars and interfering in other peoples business. Well actually it is their business also cause the lights wouldnt be on in Perth if it wasnt for gas production.
Its not in the middle of the Kimberly its only 60km from Broome.
The only pity is they cant put it in the middle of Broome.
I guess Tim Winton will be rolled out along with an assorted bunch of alternative musicians who have never been there.

Oh and I guess "rock art" will suddenly be found there also. and perhaps another group of indigenous previously unknown in the area who suddenly have an afinity with that area.

Got no problem with the people who are affected and know the issues having their say.

Remember the "Save Mauds Landing" bumper stickers that every second Kombi in Fremantle had?
You ask them-"save it from what?"
"development"
But there is already development gone wild at Coral Bay and with the demise of Mauds there is still dozens of families living in accomodation that wouldnt be accepted in a refugee camp, years later. Approvals are near impossible to get for any improvement.

The Kimberly local people have approved James Price Point. It belongs to them, they live there, they are prepared to live with it.

Wait and see what is proposed before whinging blindly about it.

the vast bulk of what you see in Hedland and Karratha is iron ore infrastructure, not gas. Woodsides facility on Burrup Peninsula is probably 10% of the area taken up by them for industry. There are no trains, ship loaders, conveyors etc. Tanks are generally partially or fully buried for LNG. And the jetty is just that, a structure carrying a pipe and an access road and not much else.
However there will be a impact for sure.
I have been thru there quite a few times for work, and Maret Island, Browse, Scott Reef. And Where they have it now is far better all round than the previous proposals.

A much greater concern will be Rio's bauxite holding on Mitchel Plateau.

firiebob said...

Ah Mauds Landing, that name brings back memories, we used to camp there in 77 I guess it has changed a little in that time, I'll have to Google Earth it and have a look

I first went there in 92 and there was nothing there, last time I was there was 12 months ago and there was nothing there also except a gravel track.
So there is probably no need to get the sign board, dreadlocks and imitation leather sandals out at this stage!

Mauds has been a gazetted town site for around 100 years though.

The construction phase is always a problem -- road trains. heavy haulage. (randy) workers looking for a distraction and any number of other issues.

Where there is one development the mindset becomes "well why don't we put a .... plant next to it to value add" as Mr Kumah from Peppi Grove would like to do in the Pilbara with his proposal. And at the LEAST there will be virtually a small town built to support the facility and its construction because I can't see a whole workforce traveling to Broome and back daily even if Broome could house them.

One of my first jobs (33 years ago) after high school was in Wickham in the Pilbara and Karratha, as most WA lads and ladettes would know is just down the road. Karratha and Dampier had iron ore facilities and some salt lakes but was still an interesting and fairly easy going place to live. It has taken considerably less than those 30 odd years to become a s..thole mainly suitable for making swags of money (of which most goes on living expenses) and has not much else going for it.

My main issue with building a "gas hub" on the Dampier Peninsula is that in very little time we could end up with a mini Burrup/Karratha on what is essentially a near to pristine stretch of coast that is relatively easy to access if you wanted.

I'll let you know after May when I get back from there if I will join the ferals to protest or just roll over for the good of the nation.

It's a little like Oakajee hey ?? but without the sailing......

Of course it is. We dont buy any of our own iron ore but its sale is good, no essential, to our economy.

Help, if ya gonna protest with coloured shirts, that would seem un-australian and the South Australian teachers are using RED in the same way for their little stouch with the guvmant, The tween distance will render it a bit of a fizzer Broom- Perth. It dosent have the support , best just go up there and get a job.