If fossil gasoline companies are allowed to drill the ocean mattress, this can end in oil spills, gasoline leaks and can severely hurt NSW’s shoreline, affecting the livelihoods and lifetime of over 6 million Australians, and disrupting considered one of many world’s largest whale migration routes.
MP Zali Steggal is predicted to introduce a bill to attempt to halt all PEP-11 exploration permits into parliament subsequent week (Monday 18 Oct).
Surfrider Foundation Australia and the native folks is asking parliament to go Zali Steggall’s Stopping PEP11 Bill that can in all probability be tabled in parliament on 18 October 2021.
Damien Cole, Nationwide Advertising and marketing marketing campaign Director, Surfrider Foundation Australia, talked about,
“NSW’s shoreline and iconic seashores are being threatened. It locations at risk basically essentially the most populated and prosperous stretch of coast in Australia. Can you picture an eyesore of an oil & gasoline rig merely off your favourite seashore? It might be utterly heartbreaking, and with our effectively being, lifestyle and native economies all carefully reliant on a healthful ocean, PEP-11 may present disastrous on all fronts for communities alongside the NSW coast.”
“Native communities in New South Wales have been impacted by catastrophes over the previous couple of years starting with the bush fires as a lot as the current Covid-19 pandemic. As we slowly recuperate from the continued lockdown, an oil spill or gasoline leak may further decimate native economies, irreparably hurt the native marine and coastal ecosystems, destroy the habitat of quite a few species along with the endangered Manly colony of Little Penguins; and negatively affect the bodily and psychological effectively being of tons of of 1000’s of Australians inside these communities.”
A dangerous precedent
Granting the PEP-11 licence for offshore oil and gasoline drilling will set a dangerous precedent for the east coast of Australia that may see runaway fossil gasoline industrialisation merely offshore from NSWs iconic seashores. At a time when the world should drastically cut back its emissions to fulfill our 2015 Paris Settlement commitments, PEP-11 will merely lock in a few years of disastrous native climate air air pollution. Australia needs native climate movement, not new oil & gasoline fields.
What can you do?
You could educate your self and examine further by Surfrider, then unfold the phrase and get PEP-11 out.
You can also write to your native MP expressing your points, along with donate to our #STOPPEP11 advertising marketing campaign, with all proceeds going to our wrestle to protect the priceless seashores, setting and folk of the NSW shoreline.