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25.01.2022 Right here in Australia on the Dampier Peninsula over 1,000,000 #Burrup rockart pieces made over a 15,000 year period ( from c 25,000 to c. 40,000 years ago) sp...read over an archipalego and under the sea, document the longest continuous history of any one people in any place on earth. If you are amazed to know that this site doesnt even have a heritage protection order, then you would be horrified that successive state and federal governments have allowed the petrochemicals industry to destroy over 20% of it. Check out our old Stand Up for the Burrup page for more info. #art #burrup

24.01.2022 WOODSIDE HAS BEEN SERVED! We're heading to the Supreme Court of WA over Australia’s largest fossil fuel project, Woodside Energy’s massive Burrup ...Hub gas project. On behalf of the Conservation Council of WA, we’ll be arguing the WA State Government unlawfully approved changes to plans for two Burrup Hub gas facilities. Woodside changed the scope of these projects after they were initially approved, and our client says the impact of those changes hasn’t been properly assessed, even though it would lead to billions of extra tonnes of carbon pollution. This Supreme Court case is about ensuring the climate impacts of each aspect of the Burrup Hub proposal are properly assessed, every step of the way.

24.01.2022 Full text of this story: BHP has rejected a proposed moratorium on mining activities that might impact cultural heritage sites across Australia until relevant l...aws are strengthened. Activist shareholder group, the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, has called on BHP to adopt the moratorium as well as allow Indigenous groups to speak publicly on heritage concerns and for the company to disclose its lobbying expectations on the issue by its industry organisations. BHP has recommended shareholders oppose the motion, which will be put to its annual meeting next month. The mining giant argues a unilateral moratorium would have the unintended consequence of disempowering Traditional Owners to manage their cultural heritage, which it argued was inconsistent with the principle of self-determination. Current agreements would be put to one side without consultation with Traditional Owners, it said. BHP said adopting the moratorium would amount to an indefinite suspension across all Australian jurisdictions, not just WA. It noted its mutual agreements with Traditional Owners did not restrict them from speaking publicly on heritage concerns. It also argued submissions by the Minerals Council of Australia and the WA Chamber of Minerals and Energy to a Federal Parliamentary inquiry into the issue had supported improvements to cultural heritage laws. Shareholder concerns over Indigenous heritage sites have been piqued in recent months by Rio Tintos destruction of ancient rock shelters in the Pilbara. The WA Government is rewriting the Aboriginal Heritage Act to strengthen the protection of sites.

23.01.2022 Join school strike 4 climate perth and FARA outside the Perth Convention Centre on the 22nd of September to protest against the fossil fuel corporation, woodside. From 7:30-9am the chief executive and managing director of Woodside, Peter Coleman, will be talking about his journey and work in the fossil fuel industry over a breakfast for hundreds. we will be chanting and speaking outside to give the people inside an idea of what the future generations want! we dont want new fossil fuel and gas projects, we want to see just transitions to renewable energy!! we NEED a safe climate future. this event is occurring the same week as the national action (september 25) making perth the first team to kick off these exciting actions (starting 3 days early!!) see you down there! get your chanting voices ready! lets show them

23.01.2022 Great meeting this morning with Simon Trott, Chief Executive - Iron Ore Rio Tinto and the Murujuga Ranger Program. MAC looks forward to building positive impactful relationships with our industry partners to support MACs vision and mission both now and into the future.

23.01.2022 'BHP sought to disturb cultural sites even after concerns raised: inquiry' (Market Screener) https://bit.ly/2ZHYM2b 'Fortescue Metals rejects shareholders' call... for moratorium on desecration of Aboriginal sites' (The Guardian) https://bit.ly/2ZKEXY6 'Rio Tinto Turns Cultural Vandal: The Destruction Of The Juukan Gorge Caves' (Eurasia View) https://bit.ly/3ksX3FI

23.01.2022 Friends of Australian Rock Art standing in solidarity with the inspirational #SchoolStrike4Climate this morning outside a breakfast for gas executives. Each of us rang the treasurer and asked him not to give government handouts to rich gas companies. Woodside's plans for the catastrophic #BurrupHub project will degrade global climate and Murujuga's world heritage Aboriginal rock art

23.01.2022 ANTI FRACKING PROTESTERS PLEAD NOT GUILTY OF CRIMINAL DAMAGE after drilling holes in NT Parliament House lawns last year ABC REPORT: https://ab.co/3dESp5o

22.01.2022 It's time for Fringe World Festival to kick sponsors such as Woodside Petroleum who are causing catastrophic climate change. #fossilfreefringe #fringegag

22.01.2022 Friends of Australian Rock Art has been invited to attend this event to explain how WA's LNG industry is destroying Murujuga's globally significant Aboriginal rock art...

22.01.2022 What about a "forensic probe" into #Woodside #Perdaman and #Yara's ongoing and proposed destruction of Burrup rock art through massive acid rain emissions? #standupfortheburrup

21.01.2022 Thanks for noticing, Federal Government... https://www.watoday.com.au//noted-feds-take-two-years-to-c

20.01.2022 Sacred sites (Tui Claypans) drilled with impunity in the Northern Goldfields as mining company fails to deal with traditional owners and registered native title... claim. Waturta Country is under threat from over zealous mining companies emboldened by State Government ACMC and EPA decisions, including a Section 18 approval for damage to significant sacred site Marlutja (Lake Wells). Despite fallout from Rio Tinto destroying Juukan Gorge we still have miners and government ignoring calls for a moratorium on exercising thier legal rights to destroy Aboriginal sites. Waturta people are appalled that days after learning of the EPA approvals to damage thier significant sites, informed by ACMC recommendations, we find evidence of a related mining company showing complete disdain and disregard for our sacred places by drilling these holes with no communication to us whatsoever. We are calling on the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage to immediately investigate this damage and prosecute the guilty party. #JuukanGorge #culturalheritage #FirstNationsSolidarity #saveLakeWells

20.01.2022 Chair of Aboriginal Cultural Materials Committee Gavin Fielding held Rio shares, had family members working for Rio Iron Ore when ACMC approved Juukan Gorge section 18 destruction...

20.01.2022 Standard FMG operating procedure...

17.01.2022 "We are very concerned about current Section 18 approvals and we are aware of other cultural sites that are under serious threat," Federal Liberal MP Mr Warren Entsch said. "I would hope that if these businesses want to continue to operate in the area with some level of credibility and some sort of social licence, then they will be very, very cautious of enacting a Section 18."

17.01.2022 This is renewables under Labor (WA). We cannot pave over Indigenous cultures on our way to a green future. The petroglyphs at Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) preda...te the construction of Stonehenge, the Pyramid of Giza, and even the last glacial maximum. The Labor (WA) Government and their Industry friends will continue to leverage green technology against First Nations heritage, aiming to drive a wedge between environmental and cultural groups. Tell the EPA that we will not pay for renewables through destruction and erasure of First Nations' culture, and mankind's history on this land. To have your say on the protection First Nations cultural heritage, make a submission to the EPA via the link below by Monday 10 May. https://consultation.epa.wa.gov.au//ammonia-plant-murujun/

15.01.2022 Rio's destruction of the Juukan Gorge site may not have been 'completely legal' as previously claimed, because the ACMC committee which made the s 18 recommendation to the Minister did not have a proper quorum at the time, thus invalidating the Minister's decision...#justanotherdayinwa

15.01.2022 The State Government has finally released a draft of the new Aboriginal Heritage Bill and it is open for public comment! I urge anyone and everyone in WA with a... deep concern for the safety of Indigenous Cultural Heritage to write in a submission and have their voices heard. They need as many different voices as possible to create the strongest possible foundation for crafting a law that will positively impact all West Australian heritage for decades. Our First Nations people have been let down time and time again with the outdated and ineffective Aboriginal Heritage Act of 1972 that allows for wholesale destruction of precious sites like we saw at Juukan Gorge just a few months ago. We cannot allow it to continue. This is one of the most important pieces of legislation WA may ever see before it for our First Nations brothers and sisters. I implore you to do everything you can to make it fair, just and equitable. You can enter your submissions here: https://consultation.dplh.wa.gov.au//aboriginal-heritage-/ Alternatively you can read the proposed draft here: https://www.dplh.wa.gov.au//AH-Consultation-Draft-Aborigin Or see additional documents and comparisons with the previous Act here: https://www.dplh.wa.gov.au/aha-review Goodluck, -Robin

14.01.2022 On Sunday 23 September 2012, at 11.30 am, there will be a peaceful gathering at WOODSIDE's Head Office - 240 St Georges Tce., Perth. Please share this with your... Perth Facebook friends. To join in, click here: http://www.facebook.com/events/268894406562762 To subscribe to our fee e -News, click here:

14.01.2022 Colin Barnett is correct: there does need to be a Royal Commission into Rio's Juukan Gorge site destruction and the contempt for Aboriginal people's cultural heritage sites which has been showed for too long in WA. As reported by The Australian on Monday, Gavin Fielding, the Chair of the Aboriginal Cultural Materials Committee which approved Rio's section 18 destruction of the site held shares in Rio, yet did not recuse himself from the ACMC decision. It now appears that despite Fielding's legal expertise as a former member of the Industrial Relations Commission, the ACMC meeting which approved Rio's application was inquorate, which could mean that the Juukan Gorge decision was potentially legally invalid. #justanotherdayinwa

14.01.2022 Is that Chopper Read in the 'Woodside Enforcer' t shirt?

12.01.2022 For further details on today's story in The Australian on former Chair of WA Aboriginal Cultural Materials Committee Gavin Fielding, see this story from The Monthly: https://www.themonthly.com.au//wa-s-new-look-aboriginal-he

12.01.2022 'Blackwashing'???? Woodside celebrates NAIDOC Week in a slick corporate video while continuing to destroy one of the most significant indigenous cultural sites in the world through its unrestrained acid rain emissions...

09.01.2022 But why is Stephen Dawson's government encouraging further industrialisation of Burrup by #Perdaman, #Yara and #Woodside's #BurrupHub which threatens Murujuga World Heritage Listing and is destroying the rock art through massive acid rain emissions?

08.01.2022 https://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/pveth

07.01.2022 You may have seen in the media today that the former Premier Colin Barnett is calling for a Royal Commission into the destruction of Juukan Gorge. Whilst I ful...ly support such a motion it needs to be made clear that what happened at Juukan Gorge was symptomatic the much larger issue of how Indigenous Heritage is handled in WA. To understand how Rio Tinto and the State Government of the day failed our First Nations communities we need to look at the mechanisms that still exist today which allow companies to destroy Indigenous Heritage anywhere in the state. A Royal Commission would give a far broader scope to the issues plaguing Aboriginal Heritage in the state and complement the current inquiry into specifically Rio Tinto's role at Juukan. This would be a vital investigation that would lead to a greater understanding of the importance of strong Heritage laws and ideally, the creation of a far better system under the newly proposed Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill. You can read more about the former Premier's comments here: https://www.abc.net.au//former-premier-colin-barn/12678126

07.01.2022 FMG works closely with the traditional custodians of the land on which it operates [and] the company acts with transparency and in good faith at all times...Yeah right...

06.01.2022 Professor of Archaeology Peter Veth's initial response to the new draft WA Aboriginal Heritage Act which according to him could have prevented the Juukan Gorge tragedy...But this is a long and highly complex piece of legislation which even highly experienced heritage lawyers are still digesting: the devil may be in the detail...

06.01.2022 This could be very bad news indeed for Woodside and its directors who have rejected shareholder demands for the company to respond credibly to the Paris climate treaty at the company's last two AGMs...

05.01.2022 Exploring Murujuga's ancient cultural history underwater...

05.01.2022 Proposed WA Aboriginal Heritage Act reform bill will fail to adequately protect important WA Aboriginal cultural sites like Murujuga...

04.01.2022 And native title lawyer Greg McIntyre says giving the Minister the deciding power in disputes over Aboriginal heritage protection is flawed as the Government holds an economic interest in the outcome. "The decision maker is not an independent arbiter, it's the state of Western Australia which has an economic interest in mining in this state," Mr McIntyre said. "I would have thought that where it couldn't be agreed between those interested parties, you might have something like the State Administrative Tribunal being an independent arbiter as to the correctness of the decision."

03.01.2022 'Woodside Enforcers' at opening night of Perth Fringe Festival implement ban on Fringe artists discussing Woodside's sponsorship of Fringe or the company's massive contribution to CO2 emissions...#MilesTweediePhotography #fossilfreefringe

03.01.2022 Yara was delighted to host the KDCCI Business After Hours last night, alongside the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, the Pilbara Regiment and business partner K...BSS, outlining the importance and benefits of strong partnerships in the Pilbara. General Manager Laurent Trost also gave an update on Yara Pilbara's innovative renewable hydrogen project, which is shortlisted for Australian Renewable Energy Agency funding. It was great to see more than 230 people attend the event, enjoying refreshments and canapes from the North West Brewing Company. Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation KBSS The Pilbara Regiment - Australian Army KDCCI North West Brewing Co. Photo: Yara Pilbara General Manager Laurent Trost speaks at the Business After Hours event.

01.01.2022 Systemic racism?