| Dear NEVILLE,
A mother has lost her baby.
A tugboat was trying to berth a coal ship at Hay Point, one of the Reef’s biggest mega coal ports, when it struck a baby humpback whale. The whale was found dead underneath.
With your help, we’ve been campaigning against the industrialisation of the Reef: coal ports, shipping and dredging. This is why.
Together, we’ve banned the dumping of dredge spoil on the Reef. Now we need your help again.
Click here and send a submission to stop the dredging of Abbot Point now.
Hay Point sits to the south of Whitsunday Islands. Abbot Point to the north.
Both are mega ports, with thousands of tonnes of coal passing through every year to mega coal ships.
Whales often swim around the Hay Point area. Mothers and babies come in seeking refuge on their lengthy journey along Australia’s east coast, through the waters of the Reef. It’s a huge attraction for tourists.
Clearly, this is no place for new coal ports. It’s no place for more massive coal ships. And it’s no place to expand the current coal ports that are already operating under capacity.
It’s a place for whales: mums and babies.
Right now the Queensland and Federal governments are planning to expand Abbot Point. Abbot Point is home to humpback whales as well as dugongs and sea turtles.
Can you send a submission to the approval process calling on them to withdraw plans to expand Abbot Point? It only takes a minute using the tools on our website.
We’ve told them before we don’t want this project, and they backed down on dumping the dredge spoil in the Reef’s waters.
Once again, we’ve got to stand up and say no. No more dredging at Abbot Point. No more dredging and no more industrialisation.
People don’t come to see coal ports. People don’t come to see dredging.
People come to see whales and a healthy Reef.
Don’t let them kill the baby whales.
Thank you for your ongoing support,
Gemma Plesman
on behalf of the Fight for the Reef team |
