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REPORT: Safety incidents surge since Equinor’s bid to drill the Great Australian Bight
Download report: Download a detailed summary and excerpts from the incident reports. — Just weeks before the Australian offshore oil safety regulator NOPSEMA is due to make a decision on Norwegian oil company Equinor’s bid to drill in the Great Australian Bight, new research from Greenpeace has revealed that over the past twelve months the…
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“Equinor, you are not welcome in our whale country”: Bunna Lawrie, Mirning Elder
Oil company Equinor is pushing for approval to drill in the Great Australian Bight. We need as many people as possible to stand with me in this fight for our country. |||| My name is Bunna Lawrie – I’m a Mirning Elder, Whaledreamer, Medicine Man & Songman Musician, Singer Songwriter & Visual Artist. I was born…
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Equinor must make environment plan public
SYDNEY, Sept 19 2019 – Equinor must publicly release the latest version of its environment plan after the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) rejected the original version due to ”gaps”.Earlier today NOPSEMA revealed that the Norwegian oil giant had submitted its revised plan after being given an additional 90 days to…
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Seismic blasting inquiry should lead to permanent ban on offshore oil drilling
SYDNEY, Sept 17 2019 – Greenpeace welcomes the Senate’s decision to examine the impact of seismic blasting on Australia’s fisheries and the marine environment in response to demands from scientists, conservationists, and the fishing and tourism sectors.Yesterday every party in the Senate, except the Coalition and Cory Bernardi, voted to put jobs in the seafood…
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Seismic blasting reprieve welcome, but the whales of the Great Australian Bight won’t be safe until drilling is permanently banned
SYDNEY, Aug 21, 2019 – Greenpeace welcomes the decision by marine geophysics company PGS to suspend seismic blasting in the whale sanctuary of the Great Australian Bight but warns the only way to ensure the long term health of the region is for every drilling licence in the Bight to be cancelled.This morning PGS told…
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Ten years on from one of Australia’s worst oil spills all the conditions remain in place for a repeat
SYDNEY, Aug 21, 2019 – Ten years ago today the Montara well blowout caused more than 23 million litres of oil to poison the waters of the Timor Sea, and yet the hands-off inspection regime that led to the disaster remains in place as Norwegian oil giant Equinor plans to drill in the Great Australian…
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Proposed Great Australian Bight audit fails on multiple fronts
SYDNEY, 2 July 2019. The Federal Government has decided that the adequacy of regulation surrounding offshore drilling will be ‘out of scope’ of an audit to be carried out on Norwegian oil giant Equinor’s plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, a document released yesterday revealed. The audit of the National Offshore…
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Greenpeace response to NOPSEMA Equinor Environmental plan decision point
In response to the news that NOPSEMA have tonight requested further information from Norwegian mining company regarding it’s plans for drilling in the Great Australian Bight within a sixty day timeframe, Jamie Hanson, Greenpeace Australia Pacific Deputy Program Director & Head of Campaigns, said:SYDNEY, June 27: NOPSEMA have today sent Equinor’s Environmental Plan back to…
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ExxonMobil given the OK to drill Australia’s deepest-ever offshore oil & gas well
SYDNEY, 19 June 2019: ExxonMobil has been granted environmental approval this week to drill Australia’s deepest-ever oil and gas well in a move slammed by Greenpeace Australia Pacific. The Sculpin well will be drilled in the Bass Strait to a depth of 2300 metres, and will be even deeper than Equinor’s controversial Stromlo-1 well proposed…
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Ocean sanctuaries are the key to protecting our blue planet. Here’s the proof.
These success stories show how putting parts of the ocean off-limits to industry can make a huge difference ||||A group of Adeli Penguins are seen here in Antarctic sea ice. Our oceans are massive, and unlike most places on land, they don’t really have borders. Animals, water (and sadly now plastic) all move freely across…