Media Releases
Breaking: Controversial Gascoyne Gateway industrial deepwater port seeking formal environmental approval in Exmouth Gulf
STATEMENT: Today Gascoyne Gateway has submitted its deepwater port proposal to the WA Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), after also submitting it to the Federal Government this week. Following a short public comment period, both State and Federal Governments...
Ningaloo-Exmouth Gulf’s natural drawcards are a job-creating engine: New economic analysis
An important new report from Deloitte, commissioned by the WA government has found the Ningaloo region, including Exmouth Gulf, supports more than 1000 full-time jobs & contributes more than $110 million to the WA economy, 90% from tourism (2018-19FY). In response...
Subsea 7 withdraws industrial oil and gas pipeline fabrication proposal from Exmouth Gulf
MEDIA RELEASE: Subsea 7, the global oil and gas services company that proposed to build a large pipeline fabrication facility and towing operation in Exmouth Gulf, has indicated today that it has withdrawn the project. Protect Ningaloo Director, Paul Gamblin said,...
Global assessment of World Heritage sites raises concerns about Ningaloo
MEDIA RELEASE: The Ningaloo Coast World Heritage area has been downgraded in the third IUCN Outlook global report for natural World Heritage sites. Ningaloo was previously classified as ‘Good’ but has been downgraded to ‘Good with some concerns’. The analysis...
Controversial Subsea 7 pipeline proposal for Exmouth Gulf, Ningaloo put on hold.
MEDIA RELEASE: The WA Minister for Environment, Hon. Stephen Dawson, has confirmed that the Subsea 7 pipeline fabrication facility earmarked for Exmouth Gulf, Ningaloo has been put on hold. Furthermore, in recognition of the potential impacts of development proposals...
Wave of community concern stops new oil-gas exploration at Ningaloo but industrial threat remains
MEDIA RELEASE: An announcement by the Federal Government today confirmed that the proposal to open vast areas of the marine environment to the oil and gas industry off the famed Ningaloo World Heritage area (as well as Shark Bay and the Abrolhos Islands) has been...
Beautiful Ningaloo: One of WA’s biggest ever conservation communications campaigns launched to protect Exmouth Gulf
MEDIA RELEASE: Perth, 11 August 2020: Beautiful Ningaloo - one of WA’s biggest ever conservation communications campaigns - kicked off today with a series of major print, radio and online advertisements, and the mass distribution of postcards across Perth. The...
More than 30,000 people call for halt to oil and gas industrialisation proposals at Ningaloo-Exmouth Gulf
MEDIA RELEASE: 30 June 2020, Exmouth: The prospect of oil and gas development expanding south from the Pilbara to areas along the Ningaloo World Heritage area and into Exmouth Gulf has prompted a surge of concern from the community. More than 30,000 people have added...
As fear lifts, Ningaloo faces its own existential threat
"There is a promontory on our wild west coast where you watch streams of humpbacks puff and breach their way past shimmering lagoons and endless pale beaches. You’d be standing on ancient red powder on what we now call the North West Cape and what you’re looking over...
‘We will fight’: Oil and gas move off Ningaloo shocks protection groups
NEWS: Emma Young from WA Today writes, "A proposal to potentially open the waters off Ningaloo Reef and Shark Bay for oil and gas exploration makes clear the industry’s intention to push south from the Pilbara into these ecotourism hotspots, environmental groups say."...