BP Planning to try Deepwater Drilling in Australia

The Great Australian Bight is put at risk by this latest oil project. Credit: Martin Davies (ABC).

Drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight is technically risky and environmentally damaging. So why would we want anyone to do it?

NOT CONTENT WITH whacking a gas refinery in the pristine Kimberley wilderness and fracking Australia's prime agricultural land, the Gillard government now has its heart set on putting oil rigs across the Great Australian Bight.

The Bight includes a designated marine park, supporting - according to the government's own environmental authority "some of the highest levels of marine diversity anywhere in Australia", much of which "is found nowhere else in the world".

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