Worldwide environmental groups threw their support behind Kimberley groups fighting the proposed gas precinct at James Price Point today with a united front in Broome.A "statement of global support" signed by 25 international conservation groups including Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and Cetacean Society International, each representing millions of members, warned of "severe and irreversible" impacts on the environment if the project went ahead.
Comparing the Kimberley with the Amazon and the Great Barrier Reef, the group warned of the risk to humpback whales, flatback turtles, dugongs and snub-nosed dolphins, as well as the environmental risks of million tonnes a year of greenhouse gas emissions and destruction caused by dredging.
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20 Jan 2011 - Gas hub protesters arrested in Perth
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