Miners hiding behind Barnett's police army

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

by: Lyndon Schneiders From: The Australian  

May 19, 2012 12:00AM

Black Cockatoo
Sydney Morning Herald  = Read More

Related articles

• Brown in Broome for gas hub talks (bigpondnews.com)
• Brown in Broome for gas hub talks (news.com.au)
• Gas firm to finance West Australia's new "Dubai" (rowenadelarosayoon.wordpress.com)
• The Kimberley: The Right Thing Or Ka-Ching? (theglobalmail.org)
• Bob Brown: why I'm leading the Sea Shepherd to the Kimberley (crikey.com.au)

The Whales are moving earlier this year

If you talk to animals they will talk with you and you will know each other.  If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know you will fear.What one fears one destroys.
~Chief Dan George~


This year the whales are swimming up the east coast of Australia, this great south Land much earlier than usual and they are appearing a good 43 days ahead of time. 

Go and stand on a high place and look and yell out hello!

This image also clearly shows the rip as it stretches out like a serpent into the water taking with it all in its path.  Rips are responsible for most drowning deaths on Australia's beaches.  If you get into a rip swim with it until you can swim sideways out of it.  Keep a level head and don't panic if at all possible try to understand it is nature.  She will grip you and let you go if you ask.


Image by Mezza- Port Macquarie looking out over the vast ocean from way up high in April 2012 visiting Leanne.