People are in shock across the state – they cannot believe that the Kimberley could be opened to industrialisation through fracking by a Texan oil and gas company, Black Mountain Energy subsidiary Bennett Resources, owned by billionaire Rhett Bennett.
The first oil and gas fields opening in the heart of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River catchment could proliferate to tens of thousands of wells, each requiring 100 million litres of water and tonnes of poisonous chemicals forced through pipes at extreme pressures to shatter rocks to release fossil fuels. Wastewater returned to the surface from test wells fracked in 2015 has been found to be radioactive, and holding ponds have overflowed in the wet season.
Oil and gas companies compare the Kimberley’s Canning Basin to the Eagle Ford basin in the US. The Eagle Ford had no wells in 2008, now, thanks to fracking, it has 27,000.
Mt Hardman Creek, 2km from the proposed fracking; and US oil and gas fracking wells. Photo: Ecoflight.
We are facing a climate change and biodiversity crisis; we cannot and will not allow this to happen.
Now is the time for the community to mobilise and take action to defend the Kimberley from this abomination.
We are asking the ultimate decision makers in Western Australia, Premier Roger Cook, Environment Minister Reece Whitby, Water Minister Simone McGurk and Mines and Petroleum Minister David Michael, and in Canberra Prime Minister Albanese, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek and Resources and Northern Australia Minister Madeleine King:
“Are you going to go down in history as the people responsible for destroying the Kimberley by opening it up to oil and gas fracking?”
Entrance Point Broome protest about the EPBC referral. Photo: Danny Estcourt.
The community came out in force with just a few hours’ notice when they heard the news.
Ask Premier Cook to ban fracking in the Kimberley here.
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