Big Oil Big Bight
The Clean Bight Alliance is a small group of concerned citizens living on the west coast of South Australia who’ve come together to take action to stop the exploration for oil and gas in the Great Australian Bight. They are part of a larger group call the Great Australian Bight Alliance which includes organizations like the Wilderness Society, Sea Sheppard Australia, Oil Free Seas, Surfrider Foundation, Sea Sheppard UK and the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
At a local level, it’s ordinary people who are organizing against the global oil giants to stop the industrialization of the pristine waters of the Bight. People who rely on the Bight waters for sustenance, for their livelihoods, for recreation, and for their traditional culture.
When NOPSEMA comes to make its final assessment of BP’s proposal to drill for oil in water depths of more than 2.2 km, in condition that for half the year at least are subject to storms and gale force winds, the lives of all the sea creatures that inhabit the Bight and the quality of life for all the people who live along the entire southern Australian coastline, will be at stake.
The Great Australian Bight coast provides pristine habitat for sea mamals
Sue Haseldine (Centre), with members of the Clean Bight Alliance in Ceduna.