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!
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Latest Supporters
Time to clean up your act Dockers
We need a climate that’s safe to play footy in. I hope the Dockers can find a sponsor to be proud of!
The world is on fore. We have moved from global warming to global burning. Taking action has never been more urgent than now.
How can my favourite club accept dirty money ?
I was shocked when I heard this. Sport is all about ethics and improving health. Dirty money is the last thing I expect from ‘my club’. If my club is really this unethical, if this is true, I will have to leave it, because then I have been fooled for years.
NO to your Scarborough mega gas extraction Woodside, did you not hear the UN chief Gueterres: “we have passed the point of earth’s heating and have entered the era of the earth’s boiling”. Put your greed aside Woodside, it has NO place in a liveable sustainable future for our planet.
Please look for sponsorship from companies that are trying to help the planet. Renewable energy is the only path forward.
Good luck in your sporting endeavours.
Kind regards,
Sue Hamilton
Hi Dockers,
Our family are big AFL fans and it means a lot to us that we transition out of fossil failures as quickly as possible. My husband and I want my two- year old daughter to inherit a liveable planet and see this as our number one priority as a nation.
Please ditch Woodside sponsorship and help my daughter’s generation to have the best future they can.
Many thanks,
Cas
Healthy and fit players and supporters shouldn’t support dirty fossils fuels, it’s a bad look!
Do it for our kids! Fossil fuels are not compatible with a safe climate (or football) future.
When I was a mad footy supporter as a kid, there was no corporate sponsoring of teams at all – that was the stuff of dystopian futures as in the film Rollerball (look it up). Let’s not compound it with a big polluter like Woodside.