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Premier Cook on election trail in the Kimberley – community calls for fracking ban commitment

January 13, 2025

Premier Cook on election trail in the Kimberley – community calls for fracking ban commitment West Australian Premier Roger Cook is on the election trail in Broome and has been...

Fighting the industrialisation of the West Kimberley – are you in?

December 17, 2024

As the news crashes in of oil and gas company Black Mountain’s plans to drill and frack twenty wells in the heart of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River catchment, we realise...

Minister Plibersek urged to assess Kimberley fracking project

December 11, 2024

Western Australia’s renowned Kimberley region is under a new threat from the oil and gas industry ten years after fossil fuel giant Woodside pulled out of building gas refineries at...

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Stop Black Mountain from fracking the Kimberley - help here

December 09, 2024

Urgent help needed for a Frack Free Kimberley We have until Monday, 23rd December, 2024 to request a full assessment of a proposal to frack the Kimberley. Black Mountain Energy,...

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Community stands together to protect Entrance Point Reef

November 01, 2024

More than 120 Broome locals gathered yesterday at Entrance Point Reef to call for its protection. As the community came together, barefoot kids delighted in discovering hermit crabs under the...

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The Threatened Species Commissioner’s visit

October 24, 2024

The Australian Government’s Threatened Species Commissioner Ms Fiona Fraser was in Broome recently and visited Environs Kimberley to hear about the important work we are doing to protect threatened species...

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Warning to investors - don’t risk millions on oil and gas in the Kimberley

October 23, 2024

Oil and gas companies are on notice following Buru Energy’s latest disastrous drilling project in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. The company revealed today that its recently drilled oil exploration well,...

Conservation groups urge WA Government to protect the Martuwarra Fitzroy River’s freshwater sawfish on World Sawfish Day

October 17, 2024

Kimberley conservation groups urge WA Government to protect the Martuwarra Fitzroy River’s freshwater sawfish on World Sawfish Day Conservation groups are calling on the WA Government to take urgent action...

Win in battle to stop Valhalla’s Kimberley fracking proposal prompts call for a bilateral approach from WA and Commonwealth to ban the industry

October 16, 2024

Conservation groups have commended Commonwealth Environment Minister and her Department for pressuring Texan owned oil and gas company’s Black Mountain subsidiary ‘Bennett Resources Ltd’ to withdraw a proposal for fracking...