Write to the PM and the Environment Minister.
The PM has hand-chosen Australia’s new Environment Minister – Senator for QLD Murray Watt. The first big test of their new partnership? A decision on Woodside’s North West Shelf gas plant – a cornerstone of Australia’s biggest climate bomb.
Write a short message to the PM and the Environment Minister!
Our future is renewable
Labor can pass with flying colours. They just need to do the responsible thing – represent the people of Australia and stand up to the big gas polluters who profit from wrecking our climate, oceans and way of life.
Australians resoundingly voted no to the Coalition that promised to approve Woodside’s gas project – especially in Perth seats Fremantle and Curtin where it was a top voting issue.
Gas pollutes. People pay
Labor only has a few weeks to decide. We’ll pay dearly if Woodside gets its wish to process expensive, toxic gas at its North West Shelf plant to 2070.
Woodside will be one step closer to locking in another 40+ years of acid pollution eating away at irreplaceable 50,000-year-old First Nations rock art.
Woodside will be one step closer to completing its Burrup Hub gas expansion and burning enough gas to emit more than13x Australia’s annual climate pollution.
And Woodside will be one step closer to drilling 50 gas wells around WA’s Scott Reef – home to threatened turtles, whales and sea snakes.
Join the thousands of Australians who are calling on Labor to reject Woodside’s climate bomb!
Tips for writing your email
Keep it short and simple and stay on topic.
Briefly introduce who you are and why you are writing: "I'm a small business owner and grandparent of five gravely concerned about climate change"
Make a clear demand to the Prime Minister and Environment Minister so it's clear to them what you're asking for: "Reject Woodside's proposed extension of its North West Shelf gas plant to 2070 under the EPBC Act"
Highlight the reasons why you're concerned about Woodside's gas expansion, like
Cultural heritage destruction: "Woodside's North West Shelf gas plant is spewing acid rain eroding 50,000-year-old Murujuga rock art – a significant cultural heritage site your government has publicly called for to earn a World Heritage listing. Extending the gas plant to 2070 would be a grave risk to this ancient, sacred treasure."
Climate destruction: "Woodside's North West Shelf extension locks Australia into climate-polluting gas for decades and the gas plant is the centrepiece of Woodside’s giant Burrup Hub gas expansion that would have a lifetime climate pollution thirteen times larger than Australia’s annual pollution."
Nature destruction: "Woodside's North West Shelf extension would enable the gas giant to drill for new gas right next to Scott Reef off the Kimberley coast. Woodside assesses that any oil spill at the Browse gas field would endanger 39 threatened species including endangered Pygmy Blue Whales that migrate through the area and endangered Green Turtles that nest and hatch their young at Scott Reef."
Sign off, restate what you're asking for and thank the Ministers for their time.