Ocean Sentry
(From news.com.au)- A newly discovered nursery for humpback whales will be destroyed if industrialisation of the Kimberley goes ahead, an environmental group claimed today. The Wilderness Society said the whale playground recently discovered at Camden Sound off the coast of Broome would be in grave danger if proposed gas projects for the area go ahead. Japanese company Inpex want to build a Natural Liquid Gas processing plant on Maret Island, which sits 300km from the area used by whales to teach their young to feed, breach and navigate currents.
“You can be guaranteed if the proposals go ahead the use of barge tankers in the area will have a significant impact on humpback whales and it would interfere with their breeding, their calving and general migration,” The Wilderness Society’s WA state coordinator, Robert Robertson said.
(By Narelle Towie)
