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There
Will Be Over 50 'Fight For the Bight' Paddle-Outs
Across Australia This Saturday - 19th November 2019
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COASTALWATCH
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This
Saturday November 23 has been marked as Australia's
National Day of Action for the Fight For The Bight,
with paddle-outs taking place in coastal communities
all over the country.
These
paddle outs are of course in the ongoing protest of
Equinor – a Norwegian Energy company – and
its plans to deep-sea drill into the Great Australian
Bight for oil. Equinor's own estimations show that
a worst case oil spill could have devastating impact
on coasts ranging from Margaret River to Port Macquarie,
(including Tassie) an unfathomably large stretch of
coast.
FIND
YOUR LOCAL PADDLE OUT HERE
For
more information about this issue, click back to Nick
Carroll's piece on the matter from February.
And
for now, let's lend our ears to the Big
Oil Don't Surf page for an updated explanation
of where we're at in this battle:
"Equinor
has once again been forced to resubmit their plan
to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight. They
have until November 29 to do so. The exploratory well,
due to be drilled next year, will be the deepest offshore
well in Australian waters and one of the most remote
in the world. It is frontier drilling and there are
no guarantees it can be done safely. Drilling this
well will cross a line in the sand with not just those
in coastal communities but all Australians. We’ve
made it clear in our hundreds of thousands that we
do not want our way of life risked by yet another
profit-driven fossil fuel project. These projects
are responsible for overheating our home planet and
threatening a liveable future for all of us. We need
to transition to cleaner, renewable sources of energy.
Opening a giant oil basin in a pristine marine environment
is an idea that belongs in a previous century.
The
Fight for the Bight is not over, not by a long shot.
The Bight must stay wild and free."
And
if you're not fired up yet, here's some stirring words
from Sean Doherty, taken from his Instagram, about
this Saturday's paddle-outs:
"It’s
our line in the sand where we say enough. It’s
about saving the Bight but it’s more than that.
It’s the people of the coast standing up to huge
development everywhere that risks the coast and our
way of life. It’s sending a message that we don’t
want huge fossil fuel projects that risk our kids’
future. It’s sending a message that we want leadership
that thinks beyond the next election and appeasing
the fossil fuel lobby. We’ve been lucky to enjoy
life on the Australian coast, and this is about passing
that luck onto future generations. These community
rallies and paddle outs are for anyone who cares about
the coastline where they live. If we can send Equinor
back to Norway it sends a huge message to the next
Equinor, the next gas field, the next cruise ship
terminal and to those in power that the people of
the coast won’t be treated like fools."
Let's
get out there!
FIND
YOUR LOCAL PADDLE OUT HERE
*click
here for full article and multimedia
(CoastalWatch)
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