Articles tagged: Seismic blasting
Climate team’s fight not over
A climate action group founded in Apollo Bay is expanding, and its leader has a message in the wake of their most significant win.
Local activists plan vigil at information session
A local action group is determined to provide the Apollo Bay community with the full picture outside a drop-in information session tomorrow.
Call for Victoria to follow NSW move
An Apollo Bay climate activist says while the New South Wales government’s move to ban offshore gas drilling in the state is fantastic news, the Victorian government needs to follow suit.
Activists call for state government to follow NSW gas ban
An Apollo Bay climate activist says while the New South Wales government’s move to ban offshore gas drilling in the state is fantastic news, the Victorian government needs to follow suit.
Apollo Bay rallies against seismic testing
Otway Coastal Environment Action Network’s campaign to raise awareness of seismic testing for offshore oil and gas attracted about 250 people in Apollo Bay yesterday.
Awareness campaign set for the coast
The Otway Coastal Environment Action Network’s Great Ocean Rescue campaign is powering on, with Wye River and Apollo Bay the next two stops this weekend.
Fighting for our planet’s future
Lisa Deppeler’s fears for the planet started long before her much-publicised efforts to protect the Otway Basin from seismic blasting.
Investigation continues into offshore gas driller
Apollo Bay environmentalists are demanding answers from an offshore gas drilling authority, after a company currently under investigation received the green light to begin another blasting survey in the Otway Basin.
Gas plans attract anger
Apollo Bay residents have opposed a gas mining company’s ploy to do seismic tests near the Twelve Apostles, at the company’s information night for the proposed project.
Seismic petition heads for debate
Federal politicians will soon debate the future of seismic testing in Australian waters, with an Apollo Bay petition to come across their desks soon.
Seismic testing company under investigation
The company planning to seismic test an area of the Otway Basin that’s bigger than Tasmania is now under investigation.
Fossil fuel industry gives environment award to gas miner
The petroleum industry has presented an environmental award to a gas mining company with interests in the Otway Basin.
Protesters hope to shake up seismic testing
Climate protesters will march through central Apollo Bay this weekend in opposition to offshore seismic testing.
Blasting protest continues
Local climate activists have escalated protests against an Otways gas drilling project by chaining themselves to a ship bound for an exploration well.
Seismic report dismays Apollo Bay fishers
A long-awaited Federal Parliament inquiry has stopped short of endorsing a ban on seismic testing in Australia, frustrating local fishers.
Apollo Bay campaigners descend on Melbourne
One hundred Otways environmentalists have travelled to Melbourne to oppose seismic blasting in the Otway basin.
Bay protest off to Parliament
Local climate activists and fishers will descend on Melbourne next week to protest against seismic testing for gas exploration off the Otways coast.
Seismic blasts worry district’s fishermen
Back from left, Nick Polgeest, Anthony Olver, Don Edmunsen, Trevor Evans, John Bolitho, Tom MacTaggart and Johnathon Davey, front Markus Nolle and Anthony Bolitho, are concerned about the impact of seismic testing on rock lobster stocks off Cape Otway. See page 3 for the full story.
