News - Environs Kimberley

Dampier Peninsula Fire and Vegetation

February 24, 2025

Over the past three years, Environs Kimberley has been working with three ranger groups on the Dampier Peninsula: Bardi Jawi and Nyul Nuyl Rangers and Yawuru Country Managers, to further...

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Kimberley fracking: Precedent-setting Commonwealth assessment welcome but level inadequate

February 19, 2025

A Kimberley gas fracking proposal by Texas-based Black Mountain Energy (BME), via subsidiary Bennett Resources, has been declared a Controlled Action by the Commonwealth Department of Environment, based on the project’s...

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The Wattleseed Collective: supporting the conservation economy in the Kimberley

February 19, 2025

One of EK's strategic goals is to work collaboratively to establish grassroots sustainable economies that enable thriving communities. We are excited to continue supporting the community-led conservation economy initiative The...

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Gas and dash fear: WA taxpayers could be forced to foot the bill for another Kimberley clean-up

February 10, 2025

A petroleum company’s attempts to offload stricken oil and gas infrastructure on an environmentally sensitive peninsula within the National Heritage-listed King Sound for a fraction of the value it was...

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Call for Premier Cook to back claimed frack legal advice with evidence

February 04, 2025

Independent legal advice states there would be no obligation for the Western Australian Government to compensate any company that possesses a petroleum tenement, should the ban on fracking be expanded...

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More than 23,000 voices call on WA Labor to ban fracking in the Kimberley

February 04, 2025

More than 23,000 petitions and postcards from voters calling for a ban on fracking in the Kimberley have been handed over to Premier Roger Cook and Minister Simone McGurk in...

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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...