WA Police officers in a show of force at the site of a protest at Broome's CSG hub
at James Price Point. Picture: Damian Kelly Source: The Australian
THIS week the government of Western Australia dispatched about 200 police officers to the sleepy tourist town of Broome to do the dirty work for several of the world's largest oil and gas companies.
Broome (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This mini army has been assembled on the doorstep of the Kimberley wilderness for one purpose -- to suppress the widespread opposition of the Broome community to the construction of the proposed $40 billion James Price Point industrial precinct.In a startling admission, WA police commissioner Karl O'Callaghan confirmed earlier this week that the decision to drag police off their beats across the state and send them to Broome would cost taxpayers $100,000 a day, for an undisclosed period and with no cost to the companies involved in the project. The final bill will likely be several million dollars.
All this to move away and silence a dogged and growing band of locals who have stood in the way of the plans of a consortium of the world's biggest companies, including Shell, Chevron, Woodside, BP and BHP Billiton, to build this massive gas plant in a beautiful and sensitive part of the remote Dampier Peninsula.
Back in MAY 2012 from the Australian
Miners hiding behind Barnett's police army
May 19, 2012
Sydney Morning Herald = Read More
dear Mezza, here is a little limmerick, inspired by this type of magnate myopia, I call it
ReplyDelete"the dance of the damned"
once was a corporate bully
with eyes all myopic and woolly
he called in police
to garner his fleece
now he's tied to the devil's strings fully
GOD BLESS ALL AUTHENTIC AND GOOD AUSTRALIAN CUSTODIANS! May their truth shape the future of our world. May their deeds and songs open the hearts of the blind greedy grasping ones who would poison our world for profit, so that ALL WILL SEE and honour the true meaning of earth's ABUNDANCE.
Taiko<
DeleteWe love the limerick!
In a startling admission, WA police commissioner Karl O'Callaghan confirmed earlier this week that the decision to drag police off their beats across the state and send them to Broome would cost taxpayers $100,000 a day, for an undisclosed period and with no cost to the companies involved in the project. The final bill will likely be several million dollars.
This totally blew my mind they would take all of these officers off the streets at NO COST to the Mining Companies.. Thank you for your encouragement xx