AUSTRALIA AND OIL RIGS - Are we gung ho, care-less, or unable to say no to the resource buccaneers?

It seems time - or even past time - 

when Australians should become alarmed, very alarmed!

How much do we have to wreck before we stop!

But then when we have wrecked so much, we can't stop -

even if we wished.

It's like being into the loan shark or having a gambling addiction,

the time to say no or change course is in the beginning.

If not done in the beginning, 

the carnage and destruction is guaranteed.

Look at the video above.

Did the USA learn?
So many of those rusting old oil rigs are still in situ.

How and when did the BP Deepwater disaster become inevitable?

My best guess is - Long ago.

Hat Tip to Fire Earth for the photo -

and if you go here you will see more..

including a graphic of large areas of exploration.

The Montara oil spill off the West Australian coast

does not seem to have impacted the Australian consciousness

to any great degree.

And this week we have news that 

the Federal Government has given the green light 

for oil companies to start drilling off 

one of Australia’s most pristine and popular coastlines -

namely the Margaret River region.

Now I am no environmental lawyer or decision-maker,

but it has always seemed to me 

- correct me if I am wrong, Networkers -

that there is no transparent process

at state or national level

whereby true resource assessment including values

is investigated for our land, water, air and sea use.

In short, Margarete River in Western Australia

already carries a huge investment in relation 

to the tourism and wine industries

as well as a specific cultural heritage.

What assessment has been made 

of the impact of oil and gas exploration and development

on these industries,
on that culture.

Hat Tip to Commentary by Val

One can't look for special treatments
by saying  it is all happening

off shore and won't interfere
with what exists on shore.

Not while people are scraping oily sand off the beaches

on America's Gulf Coast

Mmmm..........think about Margaret River.

Think of Shane Gould  in all that muck

and the surfers who love clean waters & clean beaches.

And think that perhaps hearts and spirits

desecrated by greed and hubris

don't think twice about spreading that greed and hubris

into our beautiful environment.

And go here to see what they do it with.