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10th July - Today over 200 locals gathered to send a message to the world via a webcam set up on Zanders Restaurant over looking the famous Cable Beach. The first sequence of letters read "NO GAS" and as pictured left, the second message read "AT JPP" (at James Price Point) the proposed site for [...]
9th July - Watch this footage! Dave Dureau a 76 year old respected bushman and environmentalist has his face pushed in the dirt, his arms handcuffed behind his back, and is dragged off while trying to protect country. More than 100 protesters clashed with uniformed police and officers from the regional operations group about 3pm, [...]
5th July - Black Tuesday Woodside’s day of shame in the Kimberley - A sad day today! Summed up nicely by our Community Email Extraordinaire! "I never thought I would see a day like today in my life in this country. Since when did we become a police state working at the behest of big [...]
Monday 4th July - Day 26! People are gathering at the Blockade, preparing themselves for a showdown! Environs Kimberley have summed it up nicely, "Channel 9, Channel 7, ABC Perth are all in town. Police were photographed this morning practicing moving protestors in the police station. Everyone was standing nearby after Shane Hughes’ court case [...]
Sunday 26th June - Off to the blockade on this beautiful sunny morning to stand strong in country. It seems some people are under the misapprehension that the blockade is just a bunch of tree hugging hippies and a few disgruntled aboriginals but nothing could be further from the truth. The blockade is being run [...]
Saturday 25th June - DAY 19!! - The blockade continues to stand strong with some great support from people all over the country and even some parts of the world. An interesting and informative article by spokesperson for the "Greens", Scott Ludlam. The proposed Gas Hub requires a whopping 8-16 gigalitres (1 Gigalitre = 1 billion [...]
Thursday 16th June - Day 10 .. an incredible achievement of holding up some of the biggest oil and gas multinationals in the world for so long. To read more visit Save The Kimberley's website. Friday 17th June - John Butler joined the blockade on Thursday night, sleeping in a swag and singing for other [...]
Saturday 11th June Today about 100 women stood strong for country, effectively blocking off and turning back Woodside workers intent on clearing land. Jubilation mixed with sadness and anger at Woodside and State Governments push to have land cleared in the midst of pristine monsoonal vine thickets that are under consideration for heritage listing with [...]
Apologies to my readers Unfortunately I do not have the time to maintain, everyday news for Broome and the Kimberley. From time to time I will post something of particular importance, thanks for understanding! PS I run this blog for LOVE! I do however run a Facebook Page which has lots of interesting news. [...]
Friday 10th June, 2011 Media attention has been drawn to a 3 day blockade of the road to James Price Point, the proposed location of a $30 billion LNG gas processing hub. The proposed site is just 60 km north of Broome in the heart of some of the most spectacular country along the coast. [...]
Wednesday 8th June, 2011 More than 500 members of prominent Broome families have voiced their disapproval of the State Government’s proposed $30 billion gas hub at James Price Point. As part of Broome's peaceful NO GAS campaign, family members, young and old were lined up to sign a petition against the development and a letter [...]
Broome locals say NO GAS! Wednesday 8th June, 2011 More than 500 members of prominent Broome families have voiced their disapproval of the State Government’s proposed $30 billion gas hub at James Price Point. Family members, young and old were lined up to sign a petition against the development and a letter to Federal Environment [...]