Another multinational company wants to blast our oceans in search of fossil fuels 🙄
CGG Services has applied for a license to conduct seismic blasting in Commonwealth waters off the coast of WA within the Roebuck Basin.
CGG Services has applied for a licence to use super-loud seismic air guns in Commonwealth waters off WA’s coast, within the Roebuck Basin.
This area overlaps or lies close to three Commonwealth Marine Areas, five Australian Marine Parks, three State Reserves, and one Nationally Important Wetland.
We know seismic blasting can be disastrous for marine ecosystems.
The area CGG wants to explore for oil and gas — 120 kilometres from Pardoo and 230 kilometres from Broome — is habitat critical to the survival of marine turtles, and home to 27 different threatened species.
In a climate crisis, last thing we need is more fossil fuel extraction — especially when it puts threatened marine life at risk.
The federal regulator NOPSEMA is currently accepting public submissions on the CGG’s plans until November 14.
You can make a submission via the NOPSEMA website.
Find CCWA’s submission here. Feel free to adapt these points for your own submission.
This proposal comes shortly after an approval last month for the company Pilot Energy to conduct another seismic blasting survey off the Mid West Coast, six kilometres from Dongara. The Western Australian Fishing Industry Council and the Western Rock Lobster Council have opposed the proposal because of its risks to marine life.
We should be protecting our oceans and transitioning to safe, renewable energy — not blasting marine life to search for more fossil fuels.
Humpback whale photo credit: Christopher Michel