Woodside is among Australia’s largest polluting gas companies. Its plans to build the Scarborough Gas Project and Pluto extension would generate emissions over its lifetime equal to ten years of running all of the country’s coal-fired power stations combined!
No matter where it is burnt, the gas Woodside digs up is fuelling climate damage and destroying Australia’s precious places like the Great Barrier and Ningaloo Reefs, compromising the wishes of Traditional Owners and putting people’s health at risk.
How do they get away with it? Woodside, and other big polluters, are sponsoring and exploiting our favourite sports to buy a positive reputation.
When Woodside plasters its logo across the purple hearts of Fremantle Dockers players, it’s paying for the connection and loyalty we feel for sports, and marketing themselves as a community-oriented brand – all so that Woodside can keep polluting.
We need to stop Woodside from using sports sponsorships to wash away their dirty image. That’s why, we're calling on people, no matter what footy jumper you wear or if you don’t support any team, to sign this petition:
Our teams are not for sale. We urge the Board of Fremantle FC to immediately end its sponsorship deal with Woodside Energy to protect the people, places, and game we love.
We will be delivering the voice of the community and your messages to the board of the Fremantle Dockers Football Club. Sign now and share!
Photo: David Sickerdick
Latest Supporters
Sport-washing doesn’t cut it any more. You need to clean up more than just your image, Woodside!
I’m backing this petition because I’m a farmers’ son and practising horticulturalist who lives on the frontline of global heating in the Central Wheatbelt. The impacts of climate change have become ever more severe since the 1960s, when I was a kid growing up in this same region—much reduced average annual rainfall, more prolonged heatwaves, increased megafire risk, etc. If the climate emergency isn’t addressed with strong policies to decarbonise WA’s economy, I fear for the future of rural communities, which, as AFL administrators know all too well, has been one of the most productive nurseries of footy talent in the nation. Woodside’s involvement in projects that will bring new gas reserves on to the global market poses a real and present threat to the future viability of rural WA. I regard the company as climate criminals and urge the Fremantle Dockers to avoid the risk of medium-to-long-term brand damage that is bound to result from being associated with such an irresponsible corporation.
It is the END for fossil fuels!
There’ll be no AFL in the ruined world resulting from the activities of Woodside.
What is it about Woodside and all the other energy companies? Greenwashers all!!!
Energy companies OUT OF SPORT!
Exploiting for capital gain is becoming too normal with corporations and needs to be stopped with their hypocrisy thrown back at them
Great to see the Dockers standing strong together on this important principle. Makes me proud to be a Dockers fan
I emigrated to Freo 35+years ago. I’ve been a sports coach since 2005. As an outdoor person I value my environment. I neither need nor want fossil fuel companies like Woodside or Santos funding any aspect of sport, particularly not our national professional teams, the AIS, the Olympics, nationals and world championships.