Ocean Sentry
(From abc.net.au) Australia – The Greens have held a protest at Sydney”s Bondi Beach to call on federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to stop a company exploring for coal off the New South Wales coast. The company Energie Future has applied to the NSW Government to explore a 6,000-square-kilometre area of sea bed off the NSW coast for coal.
The company is seeking to use an experimental process to turn underground coal into gas and says it will submit an environmental plan.
But NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon says the project will impact on whale migration and water quality.
