Perth / Western Australia

We haven’t addressed it once, the ABC article paid scant attention to it. Disrupt Burrup has kind of failed to build any sort of popular support after this. So i think it not only diluted their protest, i think it completely undermined their message.

This is a fair and valid point. Believe it or not: while I think that their actions in this case are not cool, I am at heart a tree-hugging hippy who genuinely does try to minimise his personal environmental impact. So, I went to their website. I downloaded their pdf and read what they're all about. And I'm not really all that moved. 32 pages of noise can be summed up by a single sentence on page 10: "Our aim is to halt industrial expansion on the Burrup Peninsula to protect climate and culture."

I read the document. I skimmed it a second time in case I missed it the first time. But nope, they don't propose any sort of alternative to extracting gas. Even Twiggy Forrest is spending serious money and effort trying out new technologies to replace our reliance on digging up and burning fossil fuels. These guys think everyone would be cool with just stopping all that and living without electricity or something. That'll never fly as a cause.