Right now, oil and gas company Woodside has big plans for the Browse Basin gas reserve, which sits off the Kimberley coast. Its proposal is to drill up to 50 gas wells around the globally significant Scott Reef, with the closest well only two km away. This is a plan straight from the 1970s. We need to let Woodside know that people have moved on; we don’t want to risk precious coral reefs with harmful fossil fuel projects.
Scott Reef is a living marine ecosystem, abundant with life, some of which is found nowhere else on Earth. With over 300 coral species and 900 species of fish, it's a marine wonderland. An array of species uses the reef as critical habitat, and others, like the endangered pygmy blue whale, pass by during migration, stopping to feed along the deep slopes of Scott Reef.
A genetically distinct population of 1,000 green turtles returns to Scott Reef each year, relying on Sandy Islet to lay their eggs, an environment that has provided an optimal nesting ground for centuries.
Scott Reef is simply no place for oil and gas extraction.
Watch this video of Scott Reef and Environs Kimberley’s Martin Pritchard responding to his trip to this special place.
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