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Oil spill inaction shows Government’s soft treatment of big polluters
Press release – 9 May, 2017Wednesday May 10: The Government’s refusal to hold big polluting oil companies to account for their negligence in Bass Strait is a demonstration of why we need to keep them out of the Great Australian Bight.The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) yesterday served an ‘improvement’ notice…
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Greenpeace: Turnbull should emulate Obama, Trudeau after BP exit
Press release – 21 December, 2016Sydney, 22 December: Greenpeace has called on Malcolm Turnbull to show leadership and stop Great Australian Bight oil drilling following BP’s final withdrawal of its bid and US and Canadian decisions yesterday to end Arctic oil drilling.BP’s announcement on 21 December that it had withdrawn its environment plan came the…
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Leaked BP report sparks concerns over safety
Press release – 13 December, 2016Sydney and London, 13 December 2016:BP’s withdrawal from the Great Australian Bight this October was an even luckier break than previously thought, said Greenpeace Australia Pacific today after The Financial Times and Energydesk published new information on the company’s parlous safety information handling. “An accident on the scale of the…
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Greenpeace welcomes BP’s withdrawal from the Great Australian Bight
Press release – 10 October, 2016Sydney, 11 October 2016 – Responding to BP’s decision to abandon its oil exploration program in the Great Australian Bight, Greenpeace Australia Pacific Oceans Campaigner, Nathaniel Pelle, said:“This is a welcome move from BP, who should never have considered drilling for oil in such a pristine wilderness in the first…
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New Bight oil permit makes mockery of crucial debate
Press release – 6 October, 2016Today’s announcement of a new oil exploration permit off South Australia – and the prospect of several other oilfields opening up – heightens the debate over BP’s controversial 2016 drilling plans in the Great Australian Bight.“If Karoon goes ahead, an oil spill from their permit area would pollute the coasts…
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BP’s Bight plans just too dangerous to be approved
Press release – 27 September, 2016Sydney, 28 September 2016 – The latest knockback to BP’s plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight signals their project is full of holes and too dangerous to be approved, Greenpeace Australia Pacific said today.“BP have again failed to gain approval to drill – this third strike should see…
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Time for BP to come clean on Bight plans
Press release – 11 September, 2016Sydney, 12 September 2016: Australia’s oil regulator and petroleum giant BP have failed to publicly address a major drilling safety issue, another sign that exploration in the Great Australian Bight is too dangerous and should be abandoned, said Greenpeace today.The Guardian Australia reported today that an oil rig destined for…
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Super trawler threatens coastal communities from Perth to Brisbane
Press release – 6 August, 2012Call for super trawlers to be banned across AustraliaSYDNEY, 6 August 2012: As the Magiris super trawler steams toward Australian waters, Greenpeace has today escalated the issue, calling on the Gillard Government to ban all super trawlers from Australian waters. “This is an opportunity for the Gillard Government to say,…
