Two inspiring short films about the beautiful environments of the North West coast of WA, and the dangers of proposed gas extraction by Woodside Energy.
The feature film is Corals' Last Stand. This is a 30 minute documentary featuring author Tim Winton, about Scott Reef, a unique coral atoll off the Kimberley coast, more than 15 million years old and home to endangered sea snakes, green turtles and spectacular corals. Scott Reef sits over the Browse gas basin, and Woodside Energy is proposing to drill 50 oil and gas wells into the basin close to the edges of the reef.
The second film, The Fight to Save Murujuga, is a short documentary about the world heritage petroglyphs at Murujuga, also in North West WA. This art is over 50,000 years old and is an intricate living story of traditional owners' ancient and continuing care for their country. If Woodside's Browse basin proposal is approved, the company will pipe this gas to their North West Shelf processing plant. This plant is already causing the Murujuga art to slowly disintegrate because of acidic emissions from the plant.
The environmental impacts of gas drilling off Scott Reef would be additional to the climate bomb of gas extraction over it's expected duration to 2070. Following the two films, we'll open a 30 minute Q&A session to discuss the impacts of Woodside's proposal and how we can act together to help protect the reef, the art and the climate.
This will be a lively and moving evening. We hope you can join us.