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Shire of Broome Extraordinary Election 2024

March 23, 2024

Today is the last day to vote at the 2024 Extraordinary Council Election in Broome. Go here for information on the candidates. Ms. Chiedza Sakupwanya as the only candidate to respond...

Greenpeace and Environs Kimberley Send Message to Gas Giants on Rainbow Warrior in Kimberley

June 06, 2023

Greenpeace Australia Pacific, in partnership with leading environmental organisation Environs Kimberley, sailed along the coast of the Kimberley to display the giant banners calling for no new gas and fracking...

Buru Energy Kimberley savannah bulldozing decision appealed

March 31, 2023

Western Australia’s environmental watchdog has refused to assess a land clearing proposal by Buru Energy. The company plans to bulldoze more than 1000kms of savanna woodland in the Kimberley in...

New Threat to Kimberley Coast

February 15, 2023

Environs Kimberley has welcomed Origin Energy’s departure from a Kimberley oil and gas joint venture with Buru Energy, but a serious new threat has emerged.Buru Energy says Origin’s departure will...

McGowan government’s proposed new climate laws meaningless without ban on massive new Kimberley gas projects

January 24, 2023

Environs Kimberley (EK), Broome-based conservation group, agrees wholeheartedly with McGowan Government’s announcement that climate change is the ‘greatest challenge of our lifetime’. But EK warns that new laws setting targets...

Black Mountain Energy pays ASIC greenwashing fine as Kimberley floods

January 05, 2023

Broome-based conservation group Environs Kimberley has hailed news that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has held gas corporation Black Mountain Energy to account for greenwashing while the region experiences...

AUDITOR GENERAL EXPOSES REGULATORY FAILURE BY TWO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

December 22, 2022

The peak environment group for the Kimberley, Environs Kimberley (EK), has welcomed the report of the Auditor General, which documents multiple failures of mining and petroleum regulation by the Department...

Taxpayer millions pay ‘obscene’ subsidy in Ord

December 14, 2022

The WA Government has announced that it will spend $77 million on an irrigation canal to supply water to foreign-owned Kimberley Agricultural Investments. Environs Kimberley is calling for a stop...

Department of Mines regulation failure in Kimberley costs taxpayers millions

December 09, 2022

New Standard Energy (NSE), a would-be fracking company, has gone broke, leaving taxpayers to pay millions in clean-up costs. Environs Kimberley, the region's peak conservation group, concludes that WA's mining...

WA EPA’s broken promise. Call for social impact assessment of mineral sands mine

November 18, 2022

Broome-based conservation group Environs Kimberley has condemned WA’s environmental watchdog, the EPA, for breaking its promise to consult over changes to a mining project that will see up to 100...