Protect the Kimberley

[SteveandViv]

Should have stuck it in Derby Noone would have given a sh!t 

They would have but the cost to dredge was to high, they almost had the funding to up date the pier there as well.

[Barry G]

G'day Baz. Not trying to be nasty, but what makes you think the greenies will let anyone put a pipeline through the ocean? They don't like "energy" companies, they don't like multi-nationals, they don't like big business, they won't obey laws regarding protesting, picketing or protecting workers from legally doing their job, and they don't like progress.

And some of us don't like stereotypes, but that is just my 'thing'.
Having been following this debate for what seems like a couple of years I recall the sea based pipeline as having been a consistent alternative put by those opposed to the Kimberley location.
As I said, I recon the Background Briefing programs who are more interested in light than heat on this topic.

[SteveandViv]

The pipe line would need to go through more 'untouched ' sea floor than the Gas Hub and I do want to reiond ever one that this is simple a port transferring gas to trucks, yes, a bloody big port that has a 20 year shelf life that will provide cheaper gas to all of the top end rather than burning fossil fuels. If you had to pay our power bills for the cost we have to pay (900 a quarter over summer then you might think again.

To lay the pipe from Broome to Port Headland is a huge undertaking and I'm sure it will inter fear with some ecology.

I love it up here and would never support any thing that would destroy a place we have made home and have no plans to leave - ever but if all the facts got out it would be a very interesting story. For gods sake, the Greenies even pretended to find Bilbies tracks that they had made, what idiots. They block my access to the place I want to go. If they do it again I Will run the F*&kers over - make no mistake.

The pics attacked are from Crab Creek South of Broome to Cap Leveque on both side. If you look at the grand scheme of things,  do you really think we will loose the "stated" only pristine part of the coast line left. When you are up at Cape Leveque, and I know a lot of you have been, you still drive down to the beach yet every part of that is native land with special meaning. Arrangements have been made an we can still drive down the south side (with signs asking us to respect we do not drive off the tracks - same on the East side) We all follow those rules and enjoy magic sunsets.

So why can't this exist as well. No Humpback Whales are going to go banging into ships, how many deaths have there been in Headland? The added marine life through the Pylons - Pontoons etc creates a new ecosystem and this is proven in Head Land which will only help to increase marine life in the area, truly it is a waste land under the water up there (James Price Point) with NO rocks, outcrops, places to hide if your a fish or a mussel to grab onto Head Land now has a large increase of Whale Births than Up the coast from here. Bob Brown is a top bloke but they are misleading you all with the rhetoric they peddle. The fish live and over all marine live have increased some thing like 38% (Best Guess) and if I ask my friends here, black and white they are actually looking forward to a bit a structure around for the fish. Look at all the wrecks the dumped in Morton Bay, now a divers and fish paradise.

It may take a few years - Ten or so but I bet you all if you come to visit you won't even know it's here. We head to Weipa every year and don't worry about it all that much

So looking at the size of what they purpose up here is minuscule to the over size of the land. They are not drilling and yes we loose access to a few Dinosaur foot prints, I know no one at all in Broome who has been to see them, we go to Gantheum for that.


End of Rant and the idea of the pics is that this is what it looks like the entire coast, I know, I see a lot of it. Here are the [pics I could find. It would be worth noting that these places are where we all go ever weekend, we take bags with us to clean up all the cans and other rubbish left there :-(

[Isuzumu]

This was at the turn off when we went in 2011, but there were no problems.  We just slowly drove through.  Not sure what is there now.  It is well worth it going in.  We were going to camp at Quandong Point, but it was too crowded and it was obvious that some of the campers had been there for a long time, not the 3 day limit the sign says!    Kevin

A good spot to bypass I would say.

[Boxhead 71]

And some of us don't like stereotypes, but that is just my 'thing'.
Having been following this debate for what seems like a couple of years I recall the sea based pipeline as having been a consistent alternative put by those opposed to the Kimberley location.
As I said, I recon the Background Briefing programs who are more interested in light than heat on this topic.

Just like the greenies pushed plantation timber as an alternative to old growth or regrowth logging, or wind farms as an alternative to hydro power? Once the plantations started going in, the greenies reckoned they were a mono culture and ruining good soil and...and...and.... and the wind farms were gunna kill all the Orange Bellied Parrots and Wedge Tailed Eagles and...and...and... I'm tellin' ya mate, they'll support an ocean pipeline all the way if it stops this project. Would you like to guess what happens next?.... Anyway, we'll find out in due course, eh? 

[Barry G]

Just like the greenies pushed plantation timber as an alternative to old growth or regrowth logging, or wind farms as an alternative to hydro power? Once the plantations started going in, the greenies reckoned they were a mono culture and ruining good soil and...and...and.... and the wind farms were gunna kill all the Orange Bellied Parrots and Wedge Tailed Eagles and...and...and... I'm tellin' ya mate, they'll support an ocean pipeline all the way if it stops this project. Would you like to guess what happens next?.... Anyway, we'll find out in due course, eh? 

Well, with timor gas being processed in Darwin, I'd have thought the economics of a pipeline in this instance weren't necessarily a problem?

[Bird]

A good spot to bypass I would say.

Ken Oath.. stunning area...

that "only when the last tree has died" thing would make a Shit hot T Shirt.

[Barry G]

Ken Oath.. stunning area...

that "only when the last tree has died" thing would make a **** hot T Shirt.

Lost, has been on T shirts, posters etc since the 1970s.

[krisandkev]

Apparently it is a Quote from anonymous Cree Indian. 



But I like this one....

[blue2u]

But I like this one....

Good one!