Monday, April 23

Kimberley gas campaign must go national, say activists

Campaigners against the mining companies’ push to open up the Kimberley region in WA to vast gas and mineral exploitation told a public meeting on April 19 that this was the “Franklin Dam campaign of our time”.

The forum “Saving the Kimberley: Our Land or Gasland?” was organised by Stop Coal Seam Gas, Sydney.

Wilderness Society national director Lyndon Schneiders said the $40 billion plan for a gas hub at James Price Point was in strife. The nearby Browse Basin has big gas reserves. He said it was critical to defeat it because it was “the main part of the jigsaw puzzle that would turn the whole Kimberley into a mining and industrial region”.

But he said the campaign needed a national effort to win protection for the area, often compared to the Amazon, Great Barrier Reef or Antarctic for its pristine and natural landscapes.

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