Stop Subsea 7

Help us stop plans to industrialise Exmouth Gulf, Ningaloo.

The WA Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is calling for public input on the proposal from Subsea 7 – a multinational oil and gas engineering company - to construct a major pipeline fabrication facility in Exmouth Gulf, and tow 10km-long pipelines through the Gulf and the Ningaloo World Heritage area.

This heavy-engineering project would involve the construction of a 380-metre-long launchway across an undeveloped beach, impacting crucial coastal and nearshore ecosystem processes. Ocean-going tugs would tow the massive pipelines 30km up the Gulf, dragging hundreds of ballast chains along the sensitive seabed, disturbing and ...

Help us stop plans to industrialise Exmouth Gulf, Ningaloo.

The WA Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is calling for public input on the proposal from Subsea 7 – a multinational oil and gas engineering company - to construct a major pipeline fabrication facility in Exmouth Gulf, and tow 10km-long pipelines through the Gulf and the Ningaloo World Heritage area.

This heavy-engineering project would involve the construction of a 380-metre-long launchway across an undeveloped beach, impacting crucial coastal and nearshore ecosystem processes. Ocean-going tugs would tow the massive pipelines 30km up the Gulf, dragging hundreds of ballast chains along the sensitive seabed, disturbing and damaging up to 18 million square metres of habitat - an area equivalent to over 1,000 football ovals. The pipelines would then be towed through the world-famous Ningaloo Marine Park and World Heritage area.

To construct and launch these pipelines, over 1.7 million square metres of native vegetation and wildlife habitat would be bulldozed to make way for two 10km railway lines, service roads and fabrication buildings.

We need to do everything we can to protect the vulnerable Ningaloo-Exmouth Gulf ecosystem from this unnecessary industrial development.

Please consider adding your name to our letter to the EPA, urging it to reject Subsea 7’s industrial development.

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Scientific surveys show Exmouth Gulf has remarkable levels of biodiversity, highlighting just how inappropriate Subsea 7’s huge pipeline fabrication proposal really is. And it begs the question: Why is an oil and gas pipeline project even being considered for this incredible area?

We understand that this is a deeply challenging time for the whole community as it responds to COVID-19 but we also know that the environmental impact assessment for Subsea 7 continues on. Therefore, we also need to continue to help the Government know that the vast bulk of the community supports it doing the right thing by Ningaloo-Exmouth Gulf, for the long-term.

Please tell the WA Government that Exmouth Gulf is too precious to be surrendered to Subsea 7.

Ask the WA Government to put environmental values first at Exmouth Gulf and say no to this destructive project and yes to a healthy future for Ningaloo–Exmouth Gulf!

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To the Western Australian Government,

We know this is a difficult time for everyone and respect the focus that governments need to have in leading the community to respond to COVID-19. However, since the environmental impact assessment is still underway on the Subsea 7 proposal, it is important you hear from the community about our concerns for the project.

A recent scientific survey has put the spotlight on Exmouth Gulf’s remarkable biodiversity, confirming that Ningaloo’s Nursery is an ecosystem of global significance.

It is clear that Exmouth Gulf and the magnificent Ningaloo Reef are intricately connected and mutually-dependent. The world-famous tourism industry at Ningaloo-Exmouth Gulf is a leading generator of jobs in the region but this can only continue if we take care of the natural assets that underpin this sector.

This ecosystem needs to be protected. As coral reef and mangrove ecosystems face ever greater threats, we should be reducing the pressures on them, not increasing the risks.

Subsea 7’s proposal to fabricate gas pipelines on the shore, drag them over important habitat and tow them through Exmouth Gulf and the Ningaloo Reef World Heritage Area has no place here.

Scientists and agencies have been calling for the conservation of Exmouth Gulf since 1974. We urge you to take note of the science, save this precious place, secure sustainable jobs, particularly in tourism, and leave a lasting, positive legacy at Ningaloo.

Please say no to Subsea 7 and yes to a healthy future for Ningaloo – Exmouth Gulf.

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