Film
Two filmmakers who voyaged across the Great Australian Bight on board a Sea Shepherd vessel say their film Operation Jeedara, screening at this year’s Transitions Film Festival, provides a rare glimpse of South Australia’s most remote islands.
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Ousted Liberal veteran Duncan McFetridge has called on his successor Stephen Patterson to resign as Holdfast Mayor – and the State Government has questioned his ability to continue in the role – after his council called for a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the Great Australian Bight.
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UPDATED: Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis says BP’s decision to abandon its plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight is “bitterly disappointing”, but environment groups are urging other oil companies to follow suit.
BP has been unable to guarantee that an oil spill in the Great Australian Bight would not reach the shoreline and harm wildlife, yet experience elsewhere in the world suggests it could do more to reduce that risk, writes Andrew Hopkins.
Oil giant BP will have to resubmit its application to drill in the Great Australian Bight after it fell short of environmental standards for a second time.
National environmental regulator NOPSEMA is at the centre of a fight between green groups and the oil industry over BP’s plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight.
The Wilderness Society wants oil giant BP to release more details of its plans to drill exploration wells in the Great Australian Bight as a Senate inquiry continues to investigate the company’s plans.
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