Say NO to massive industrial saltworks at Exmouth Gulf wetland
International industrial corporation K+S wants to build a giant #saltworks – the size of nearly 12’000 MCG footy ovals – on the eastern side of #ExmouthGulf, #Ningaloo, over an undeveloped, nationally listed #wetland. The company is seeking environmental approval to build its project.
The project would involve the construction of massive, artificial salt ponds with levee walls dozens of kilometres long;
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six-storey salt stockpiles; conveyors, desalination plant, fuel storage, and other infrastructure; the risk of discharge of #toxic hypersaline water into the rich marine environment; and barge-loading via a new 660m jetty (with dredging) and loading structures.
An #IndustrialDevelopment of this massive scale poses unacceptable risks to the sensitive #environment here, which supports many #ThreatenedSpecies including critically endangered #sawfish and #ShovelnoseRays,
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as well as #turtles, #dugongs, and #MigratoryShorebirds.
If you want to protect the unique and globally significant environment of #ExmouthGulf, Ningaloo, and take a clear stand against its #industrialisation, please join us in opposing this project.
https://www.marineconservation.org.au/actions/stop-saltworks-in-exmouth-gulf/
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