Coastal campaigners look to ride big wave of worry over gas, oil plans

As massive waves and the world’s best surfers descended on Bells Beach this week, Damien Cole seized the chance to draw attention to his cause.

Owen Wright is among the professional surfers who has j
oined protests against oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight. 

The Surfrider Foundation ambassador and independent candidate for the coastal Corangamite electorate is on a mission to fight plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight.

Read the story from The Age by Benjamin Preiss - “Coastal campaigners look to ride big wave of worry over gas, oil plans.”

(A representative of the Westernport and Peninsula Protection Council was among the speakers at a recent protest about the coal-to-hydrogen project approved by Victoria’s Environmental Protection Authority and a report abbot that can be found on Climate Conversations)