Despite being confronted with the full force and influence of Woodside and its bedfellows, dissenting communities are fighting might with right. Woodside Vs The Goodside
Did you know? Fortescue Metals group owned by Twiggy Forrest pushed down its train tracks over the top of them Pilbara mob`s rock art. While the TO`s were negotiating in good faith for the tracks to go around this irreplaceable aboriginal heritage, Twiggy the Conquistador made sure he steamrolled right over the top for the sake of efficiency and pragmatism. Onya Twigs the newly self appointed saviour of the blacks.
Twigs story on the generation one website sounds so convincing.I know too many of my bubbly`s in Hedland that think they got ripped off working for him as underpaid indigenous trainees. The mining lobby is giving Gillard absolute grief about their indigenous paticipation plan and their whole of government approach.
You see Twigster and his mates thought they was gunna get cheap indigenous labour. The costs to fly in/fly out people from faraway places like Tasmania and New Zealand is killing em.
Now, they are starting to finally realize the depth and scale of the illiteracy and other employment participation problems.
Basically Twiggy learned sweet FA from living with the aboriginal people on a pastoral station....sadly many of the aboriginal people that he grew up with have passed on far too early. Industrialisation of the north will not save the real aboriginal people that live on country. Far more to it than that Twiggy.
They need their culture,and their own self determination bucko...just ask any body that knows anything about indigenous cultures. It is widely known, the UN has mountains of literature on this issue.
Mate, we are sick of evangelists,conquistadors and mining lobbyists ramming sh...t down our throat and using our peoples and their dilemma as political footballs whilst painting themselves to have a halo and wings. Also Nova Perres Kneebone and all your other token blacks should piss off back to where they came as they were assimilated into white culture a long time ago.
Martin.Ferguson.MP@aph.gov.au
Its a bit unfortunate Mr Bob Brown did not include the fledgling LNG Industries in Queensland. They should also shoulder some of this responsibility.
Yes, maybe natural gas-fired power plants have lower carbon emissions than coal-burning ones, and yes many people have been fooled by the clean green energy deception that it pushed by multinational corporations with their million dollar advertising campaigns.
But everyone also contends that the total carbon impact of LNG -- including the energy to extract it, liquefy it, ship it overseas, re-gassify it, then send it to market -- and the thousands of additional air flights to cater for the fly in fly out workforce - makes it a far bigger polluter.
The oceans are warming because of the CO2 levels and so is the NO Industrialisation of the Kimberley Campaign.
As the spotlight shines on the Kimberley once again with the release of the Kimberley production Mad Bastards, so will the heat rise, for the fight to stop the industrialisation of one of the world’s last great wilderness.
Broome and the Kimberley is known across the nation and around the world for its unique music, its musicals, films, TV series, radio and all the other Arts. Hundreds of books have been written and illustrated about the Kimberley and in particular the historical township of Broome with its romantic settings of full moons over the bay, stolen pearls and it’s inspirational beautiful clear light.
However, the Browse Liquefied Natural Gas Precinct Strategic Assessment Report (currently open for public comment) that proposes to locate the world's largest LNG CO2 pumping refineries just outside our tourist/pearling town of Broome, at James Price Point, addressed these art industries under the subheading CATERING.
People within these highly successful and culturally appropriate industries have worked intensely for decades to build the skills and resource base to establish the current national and international brand of Broome and the Kimberley.
Artists, film makers, painters, writers who have been inspired by the Kimberley for it's colour, its characters, its environment, is wildness, it's shared cultures, who have made names and carved out a living from COUNTRY, now is the time to speak up and support the protection of the Kimberley and save James Price Point and the township of Broome.
2011 is crunch time
A pictorial view of Redhands’ travels along the coast and around Broome town this year. The word is finally spreading wider and the campaign grows. Outside of government and the judiciary much has been achieved this year
Redhanded took Hands off country to Agadir in Morocco for the International Whaling Commission Meeting 2010 with publicity material support from Kimberley Whales, Environs Kimberley and the Wilderness Society. A face to face with the then Minister for the Environment Peter Garrett placed the preservation of the Kimberley on the International agenda and the protection from industrialisation of the Dampier Peninsula coast at Walmadan, James Price Point, Price’s Point as an urgent priority for the Australian Federal Government.
The Broome Community NO GAS mob has gone from strength to strength, the Christmas message says it all. Save the Kimberley publishes ‘Kimberley at the Crossroads’ and launches in Sydney, see video below. Numerous Facebook pages have been established, while the media have opened their eyes and ears, finally. As to the community, to paraphrase Sandy Dann of Goolarri Radio, it’s time to get the splinters out of the bum and get off the fence.
“We must not do it.”
“They’re dreamin.”
“It’s not going to happen.”
Hands off country
Standing up for the planet
Ol' Man from the Bush from the album Saltwater Cowboy. The Pigram Brothers."If a deal was not done the issue would clog up in court and stall" he said.
Redhand told you so two days ago under the heading: Repulsive Acquisition Deals behind closed doors.
Red Hand would just like to remind everyone what Mr Bergmann said on the 8th September, 2010 on the ABC Kimberley Radio State's interest in James Price Point bigger than expected when he was interviewed by Vanessa Mills and Ben Collins.
Mr Bergmann says “the project as it stands will not employ any Aboriginal people from the Dampier Peninsula due to a lack of education and training”
Woodside's plans to build a gas processing plant at James Price Point near Broome have been dealt a major blow with the Australian Heritage Council recommending the site be included in a national heritage listing for the west Kimberley.
Documents obtained by The West Australian under Freedom of Information reveal the council has reversed its decision to leave James Price Point out of its initial assessment of Kimberley heritage values.
Its final boundaries for the proposed 20 million hectare heritage area were given to former environment minister Peter Garrett almost six months ago but have not yet been made public.
In them, the council says dinosaur footprints along the west coast of the Dampier Peninsula have heritage value.
The recommendation is another headache for Environment Minister Tony Burke, who has already put off a decision on national heritage listing for the Kimberley until June, when he will consider environmental approvals for the $30 billion project.
The much awaited Browse Strategic Assessment was released last Monday, but only one hundred copies were made available for the Broome Community, less than 1% of our community will have access to a hard copy of it. This given situation should not surprise anyone given the stance and indifference shown to our community by the Department of State Development throughout the Strategic Assessment process. Redhand will wait and see if the promised three days Community forum will be undertaken by the DSD in early February 2011. This forum has been suggested by members of the Broome community, in order to assist the community and individuals to understand how to address the report and seek clarifications on a range of concerning environmental, social and heritage issues. As far as the report itself goes there is only one word that really sums it up INSIDIOUS. Redhand will address why insidious in the coming days.
GetUp was in Broome last week and met up with a variety of conservation & Indigenous groups and individuals to discuss their current Anti Compulsory Acquisition campaign. An issue that also drew a lot of attention at the Broome Shire Council’s meeting last week with several people raising their concerns in public question time. The community is very concerned that the Shire has shown a total lack of leadership and guidance in regards to this totally barbaric notion of Compulsory Acquisition being enforced within the Shire boundaries.
The Broome Shire will not be making any objections however, the Kimberley Land Council has submitted an objection to the Department of Regional Development and Planning on Compulsory Acquisition on behalf of Joseph Roe and Mr Cyril Shaw because they are the Registered Native Title Claimants for the Goolarabooloo and Jabirr Jabirr Peoples claimant application, being Federal Court proceeding WAD 6002/98. The word on the street and around the tables of senior state bureaucrats is that the Compulsory Acquisitions, Notices of Intention to Take (NOITT) has major holes in it and its basically invalid as well as highly immoral fraudulent.
However, this has not stopped KLC’s TONC members flying up and down to Perth to meet with WA government representatives over the last couple of weeks to negotiate another compensation package for the taking of this land. What’s strange about this is an objection has been lodged by KLC, on behalf of Mr Roe, but they are still making deals behind the backs of the objectors. Now that's what I would call a kick in the guts! A deal has been struck and has already been signed off by TONC, the State Government and Woodside and apparently, an announcement will only be made when its politically advantageous of the above mentioned players. Perfect timing for everyone involved because there will be no media scrutiny about the how’s, where’s or the why’s over the Christmas break.
KLC also released their Indigenous Social Impact Assessments in relation to the proposed world’s largest gas refineries being landed at James Price Point however; they failed to consult with Native Title registered Claimants about any of these reports during the preparation of them. Having read these reports it has become crystal clear to Redhand that most of the information within KLC’s Indigenous Impact reports does not correspond or match up with the: Bradshaw, E and Fry R, 1989 A Management Report for the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, Broome Western Australia. Department of Aboriginal Sites, Western Australia Museum, Perth, May 1989; The Aboriginal Cultural Materials Committee findings, The Report by O’Connor and Veth and the Terrex Report undertaken in 1991, “Report of the Ethnographic Survey of Exploration Licence Application written and compiled by a Mr Nicholas Green, who at the time was under the instruction and control of the Kimberley Land Council.
Redhand was around during the time of Terrex fiasco and remembers the feelings felt and the inner joy experienced on seeing all the Senior Law Men sitting in the grounds of the Broome Court House fighting for Country. And I remember their exultation and their jubilation when the Application was rejected on the grounds “that the entire coastal strip has a high density of Aboriginal Archaeological Sites, many of which it assesses to be of great cultural significance”. The Terrex’s sand mining proposal (June 1990) would have cut the Song Cycle Path in half. The Court accepted that the Songline was simply that, a cultural spiritual Songline consisting of interwoven and interconnected sites, a continuum linking the Northern and Southern Law and that it could not be broken.
So what has changed? Sand- mining or gas refineries what’s the difference? Both have the power to desecrate the song, break the line and then we will all lose our emotional wellbeing links that attach us to Country and all her boundless bounties.
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Professor Flannery said in a statement that it was critical for emergency and health services, as well as the public, to have the best information from scientists.
''Ignoring it or shooting the messenger will not reduce the threat of climate change, it will just mean that Australia is less prepared,'' he said. ''We'd be living in the past to think that Australia did not need to prepare for a changing climate.''
Professor Flannery, a palaeontologist and author who was Australian of the Year in 2007, has been seen as a polarising figure by some because of his calls to phase out large-scale use of fossil fuels.
Palaeontologist, Dr Steve Salisbury from the University of Queensland, Goolarabooloo Lawman, Richard Hunter and Scientist and former Australian of the year Tim Flannery on the Goolorabooloo coast early morning over Easter examining dinosaur footprints in collaboration with Broome Dinosaur Trackers.
A Climate Commission report released on Wednesday examined links between Australia's extreme weather and human-induced climate change. It found natural events were being influenced by climate change, because greenhouse gases are accumulating and trapping extra energy in the Earth's atmosphere and oceans.
Broome to be Inpex supply hub |
TOLL Mermaid Logistics Broome, a 50%-owned subsidiary of Mermaid Marine, has won a five-year, $20 million contract to provide supply base services to Inpex in Broome, Western Australia. Under the contract TMLB will develop dedicated infrastructure and provide various services at its Broome supply base to support Inpex’s Ichthys LNG project development drilling works. |
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