Gorgon expansion proposal approved - EPBC 2008/4178
The Gorgon expansion has been approved by the Federal australian Government at a time when opinions are mixed in regards to the long term impacts of such approvals on climate change issues,sustainability in its broadest senses of work,unemployment and industrial development,development over public opinion,value of environment and environmental impacts over short term industrial development and dollar earning and it brings in to sharper focus the fact that we are definitely controlled/influenced and impacted by global views,perceptions both economically and politically and that we cant easily assert political autonomy ...These and many other issues whilst the current oil spill off the Western Australian coast 700kms into the Timor sea, highlights some of the dangers and issues of oils exploration and environmental impacts...coincidentally at this time.(see; http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/31/2671525.htm )
The Gorgon expansion has been approved by the Federal australian Government at a time when opinions are mixed in regards to the long term impacts of such approvals on climate change issues,sustainability in its broadest senses of work,unemployment and industrial development,development over public opinion,value of environment and environmental impacts over short term industrial development and dollar earning and it brings in to sharper focus the fact that we are definitely controlled/influenced and impacted by global views,perceptions both economically and politically and that we cant easily assert political autonomy ...These and many other issues whilst the current oil spill off the Western Australian coast 700kms into the Timor sea, highlights some of the dangers and issues of oils exploration and environmental impacts...coincidentally at this time.(see; http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/31/2671525.htm )
