The  Australian government is behind the proposal to build a massive natural gas processing plant on the unspoiled coast of the Kimberley in Western Australia. The "Browse LNG Joint Venture" involving Woodside Petroleum, Chevron, Shell, BP and BHP Billiton, if approved, would have severe and irreversible impacts on a range of unique and threatened species and pristine natural ecosystems and severely impact the social fabric and economic future of the region.

The proposed gas hub would destroy sea turtle nesting and foraging habitat, pollute humpback whale calving grounds, and remove wetlands and waters important to migrating shorebirds.

If this industrial development occurs on the Kimberley coast, it would "green light" other polluting industries to target the region’s coal and coal seam gas, bauxite and uranium deposits.  Read more about the Kimberley and the LNG plant.​ Read about the delivery of the global statement to Broome activists in Western Australia.

It is not too late to stop this devastating project in its tracks!       

Photo by Kat Clay