The West Australian’s great coral whitewash

Last week, the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (AMS) was released Destructive New Research About the coral bleaching scale on the Wa coast, which is the worst of registered history. Some reefs, including the popular Rowley Shoals from the Kimberley coast, have 90% mortality after an extreme sea of sea heat wave extending from the end of last year.

“The length and intensity of heat stress and footprint in multiple regions, WA, most of the reefs in WA, are something we have never seen before, Dr.

“Climate change guides these events that become more often, more intense and more common, and give a little time to heal our surprising, valuable coral reefs.”

His reports were national news last week, running widely on ABC Radio and TV. BBC. However, an exit in which the story is not particularly present, Western Australia The newspaper of the Seven Western Media of Kerry Stokes.

Seven Western media belongs to the Seven Group Holding (SGH) (SGH) (SGH), the son of CEO of Kerry, CEO, including important WA gas projects, including the Waitsia Gas Project that exports abroad. Through WoodSide (a special exemption To do this from the WA government). SGH also has WESTTRAC, a mining dresser that provides caterpillar trucks to WA’s welding industry (the strange “source technology showcase” activity organized by seven Wests every year or why rarely Look at the photo of a competitor Bulduzer brand in Stokes’ article). Oh, and SGH also bought 100 million dollars of WoodSide shares directly (this reported inside West).

Indeed, the only authorities seen by the readers of WA’s only big printed newspaper all week Regarding a new sponsorship agreement between WA Maritime Museum and Fossil Fuel Company Woodside – celebration As part of the National Science Week, a “Woodside Open Day for children”.

On Sunday morning, the participants, WoodSide’s fossil fuel extraction, the heating waters of the 1,500km WA coast of the white whitewash at a time when the white whitewash to use the WA Museum for the excessive number of protesters.

No one should realize that WoodSide, a large gas export facility containing the federal government’s north -west shelf extension, that the bleaching on the same coastal lane as Buotside Hub. to approve To work until 2070. Bup center described It is expected to spread as the largest fossil fuel project in the southern hemisphere 6 billion tons Carbon pollution throughout his life. This is 13 times the total annual emissions of Australia and provide existing mitigation measures, including the protection mechanism.

Alec Coles, CEO of the WA Museum, refused to interview, but sent me a long explanation.

“The WA Museum aims to be understood about the rich biological diversity, heritage and cultures of Western Australia, Co said Coles. “As part of this study, the WA Museum has been conducting original biodiversity on Way coast for 28 years and is getting financial support from Woodsyide.”

Coles said that this research was independently managed by the museum, and that Woodside did not manage or participated. However, except that he understood the emotion, he did not answer questions about WoodSide’s discomfort with the museum’s logo using the logo of the museum.

As the big daily newspaper in the state West According to Mignon Shardlow, a senior lecturer at Journalism at Notre Dame University in Fremantle, he still sets the agenda for the other media, “So what’s up Western Australia Deciding news is important. “

“When there is a lack of reporting on a matter that is important for the Western Australians, readers have the right to wonder which other important stories are skipped,” he said. “Is it undermining the news values? When marine scientists came together to let the reefin have been damaged from an unprecedented marine heat wave, this is a story.

Last November, I was a part of a campaign to Scott Reef from WA’s Kimberley coast, along with ARIA award -winning musician John Butler. We were there to document the risk of direct collapse and risk of oil drilling from WoodSide’s gas drilling plans in the surrounding eye tattoo basin, but something deeper looked wrong – water was five degrees warmer than normal, and soon the first bleach warnings were released.

I was in Karratha in January When 30,000 sea creatures were washed on the beach and Shocking images Ningaloo and other reefs have been through the news since February. Butler repeated a very simple message for Woodsyide in Sunday’s protest.

“Fuck. There is no other way to say that. I will not be polite about it. What they do is very perverted.

“While watching a fossil fuel company, trying to grooming our children to accept absolute nonsense and the deviance of the truth, they do not pay taxes and do not throw our world in the trash. Everything is very perverted and sick.

“The truth [the WA Museum] To get financing for basic science and to emphasize the species that are discovered or actually disappeared, it has to sclepp to people like Woodside-this is just the worst B class Hollywood film. And that’s happening in our state. “

Chief editor Western Australia The newspaper, Christopher Dore did not answer the repeated questions about whether the comprehensive Woodside advertising and the lack of any pressure of the coral bleach in the newspaper (( short -piece He ran behind a payment wall West Complete the website with banal explanations from WA’s new environmental minister). But then Dore was busy in a different fair on Sunday.

With the protest in the museum, at the same time, Seven West Boss Stokes He was leading Australia’s Prime Minister and Resource Minister Woodside is standing in this year’s source technology showcase and Dore and Woodside President Richard Goyder is circulating in the background. Proudly woodside published Images that tell Stokes to “get instructions” to PM (or robot dog). Perth has a small town and there are only many ways to spend your Sunday.

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