Calls for national Moratorium on Seismic Blasting

Communities gathered in Warrnambool to call for an end to gas exploration in the Otway Basin and a national moratorium on seismic blasting to stop the damage being done to marine life and the marine environment. They want the recommendations of the Senate Inquiry into the Impact of seismic testing on fisheries and the marine environment implemented.

We hear from:
Lisa Deppeler, founder of OCEAN, the Otway Coastal Environment Action Network
https://www.ocean.org.au/

Ben Druitt, Fight for the Bight, Port Fairy

Yaraan Couzens-Bundle, Gunditjmara Whale Dreaming Custodian and Coordinator of SOPEC, the Southern Ocean Protection Embassy Collective.

Prof. James Dunbar, Southwest Coast Scientific Group of the Clean Ocean Foundation. 

https://www.cleanocean.org/science-and-research

Louise Morris, Campaign Manager for offshore fossil fuels, Australian Marine Conservation Society

https://www.marineconservation.org.au/

Report of Senate Inquiry into the Impact of seismic testing on fisheries and the marine environment

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environm...

Produced by Judith Peppard

Photo: Judith Peppard

Episode #1499