Woodside has begun seismic blasting

Seismic blasting makes use of underwater airguns to blast highly effective sound waves in direction of the seabed to establish fossil gasoline reservoirs beneath the ocean ground. It could severely injure whales and probably kill different marine life. A rising physique of analysis signifies that this noise air pollution can harm, typically completely, the listening to of whales and fish, in addition to kill necessary prey species like plankton. 

Woodside’s personal acoustic modelling discovered that pygmy blue whales could possibly be injured by the seismic blasting over 60km from the blasting vessel. The blasts are anticipated to run for weeks, with native wildlife being uncovered to booms as loud as a jet aircraft each 5 seconds, 12 hours a day.

Seismic blasting is simply the primary a part of Woodside’s monstrous Burrup Hub. The entire Burrup Hub will embody drilling as much as 80 gasoline wells off the Pilbara and Kimberley coast – posing a risk to wildlife at main biodiversity hotspots like Scott Reef. 

Woodside and its Burrup Hub is Australia’s greatest local weather risk, belching out 6.1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gasoline emissions over its proposed 50-year lifetime.

The Burrup Hub is so soiled that its local weather air pollution could be larger than the mixed complete of the subsequent two largest fossil gasoline initiatives: the Beetaloo Tamboran and the Peak Downs Extension.

Woodside’s seismic blasting is method too dangerous and it ought to by no means have been given the inexperienced gentle. However the struggle isn’t over but. With sufficient strain, we are able to be sure the federal government pulls the plug on Woodside’s disastrous plans. You’ll be able to assist by signing the Woodside petition or emailing your native MP.