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
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.
Please don’t allow Woodside to use you to greenwash their image. We can’t afford to develop any new gas fields.
My local council Waratah Wynyard Council just banned fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship os council property and events due to impacts on community health and climate. As a mum, I am soooo thankful to them. How can we say we are doing what we can to tackle climate change and take this issue seriously is we are still allow fossil fuels companies to buy community support through our beloved sporting clubs? What a terrible and cruel contradiction. Banning fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship is essential climate action.
Dear Freo team
Giving Woodside the boot would be a magnificent way to ensure the game continues into the future.
Fossil fuels are burning up the future of all our kids, we don’t need them, they need us.
Thanks so much
Annie Close
Worried grandma