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Western Australia governs on behalf of mining companies. as Kimberley’s natural wonderland is threatened

over the past weeks, the WA Premier Colin Barnett has sent hundreds of police to the once placid town to protect the interests of the mining company Woodside, ….
Is this the way we conduct business in Australia in 2012? The WA Premier has effectively sent his own army to Broome at a cost of over $1 million to Australian tax payers in order to protect the interests of one of our largest mining companies….

Kimberley under threat from mining boom, The Drum, Wade Freeman, 11 June 12 “……. one of the world’s most untouched and iconic regions was granted National Heritage protection last August. Australia’s beautiful Kimberley, which stretches all the way from Broome, north up around the Buccaneer Archipelago, and east as far as the NT border – was declared of great national significance due to its cultural and environmental values to the nation..

… what many Australians don’t realise is that despite the National Heritage listing, parts of the Kimberley today remain under grave threat from rampant industrialisation……
people all over the country are raising their voices against the possible destruction of one of Australia’s last relatively untouched natural wonderlands….. over the past weeks, the WA Premier Colin Barnett has sent hundreds of police to the once placid town to protect the interests of the mining company Woodside, ….
Is this the way we conduct business in Australia in 2012? The WA Premier has effectively sent his own army to Broome at a cost of over $1 million to Australian tax payers in order to protect the interests of one of our largest mining companies….
Besides the proposed gas hub at James Price Point, mines as diverse as
coal, oil, bauxite and uranium are all on the drawing board, posing a
major threat to the Kimberley. The Kimberley is one of the world’s
last great wilderness areas, but it’s currently covered in more than
700 mining tenements.

We have argued, along with many other environment groups, Broome
residents, the Deputy Mayor of Broome Ann Poelina, leading Australian
Businessman Geoff Cousins and many others – not that the gas
extraction at Browse Basin should be shelved but that the gas should
instead be piped to a more appropriate location such as the already
industrialised Pilbara region.

The Australian Conservation Foundation believes that some places are
too precious to lose – and the Kimberley certainly ranks as one of
those places.  http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4063574.html

June 11, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, Western Australia