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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY TO CONTINUE ACTIVITIES IN OUR OCEANS CAUSE SERIOUS CONCERNS

THE PEP11 ZONE SYDNEY TO NEWCASTLE - proposed 3d testing & gas/oil mining

This from one of many print media articles regarding the issue:
​"We are concerned about the long-term effects of any industrialisation of the seabed and surrounding coastline,” says Robbi Luscombe-Newman, co-founder and CEO of Northern Beaches-based not-for-profit conservation group Living Ocean, which works with government agencies, marine scientists and independent corporations.
“This would create a de facto fence causing alteration for some migrating fish stocks. In just one example our data collected by Living Oceans Bill Fultons special application over 10 years shows returning humpback mums and bubs have established migration paths very close to the coastline and this will impede those migration paths and drive them offshore where they are exposed to predators.”

"Tim Buckley, Director of Energy Finance Studies at IEEFA in Sydney says this proposal looks entirely unjustifiable. The cartel running the Australian gas industry has been entirely effective at perpetrating a total con against the people of Australia. Singing the tune that ever more gas production is needed to lower gas prices is a pure fiction. East coast gas production has trebled since 2010, and domestic Australian gas prices have trebled in the same timeframe. This proposal puts the gains of a private vested interest minnow ahead of the interests of the all Sydney siders and flies in the face of the facts requiring an orderly transition away from our economic and political fossil fuel addiction."
Tim Buckley, Director of Energy Finance Studies, IEEFA, Sydney. timabuckley@outlook.com

HUMPBACK WHALE RESEARCH & SEISMIC TESTS FOR GAS & OIL 

Living Ocean's unique whale & Humpback research  demonstrated the vulnerability of whales, dolphins and marine life during proposed seismic testing for gas off Sydney's Northern Beaches during northern and southern migration of Humpback Whales. Our submission to NOPSEMA postponed last September's test. However the testing resumed  this April just prior to the 2018 northern migration.
Living Ocean has also screened the documentary Sonic Sea which is a wake up call as to the damage sound generated by humans is creating in all our oceans.
There was a lot of community concern regarding Seismic Testing for gas, proposed in the PEP 11 area just offshore from Sydney's Northern Beaches up to Newcastle as indicated in the illustration attached (the yellow arrow).
The best way to understand this issue is to view the documentary Sonic Sea online: https://www.sonicsea.org/watch-now
Contact your local Federal member to express concerns about ongoing oil and gas in all our coastal waters.
It's important to realise the immediate and ongoing impact this industrial developement will have if it is developed off our coastline from here to Newcastle.

View our information pack for seismic testing & possible impacts off the Sydney/Newcastle offshore region.

LIMITED AMOUNT LEFT...LIVING OCEAN DESIGNER RING TO FUND SEABIRD RESEARCH 

THE STORY BEHIND THE RING
Working with some of the amazing talents who are dedicated to saving the life in our oceans, Living Ocean has created a stunning seabird band ring that reflects the spirit of the seabirds who soar across our wondrous oceans.
All this came about when Living Ocean co founder Robbi Newman found an Albatross washed up at Barrenjoey headland NSW. 
“It had been banded by CSIRO, so we traced it through the CSIRO as a White Capped Albatross born on the Auckland Islands way south of New Zealand. It had been banded on a trip to the squid feeding grounds off Wollongong where they feed once a year when the squid spawn there. I buried it up on the sand dunes and ended up wearing the recovered band as a ring for many years until it washed off while I was surfing one day. It had returned to the sea. I know how these animals ‘fall in love’ and travel vast distances across the oceans, so it became my spirit friend. 
Then while working with Dr Jenn Lavers funding research into seabirds, we noticed she had a wedding band modelled on the seabird bands as well. That was it. The concept was born to use this as a fund raiser. So in death we have saluted the love of my unknown Albatross and hope its spirit soars with us as we do whatever we can to help life on the planet survive.We do hope this ring allows your spirit to soar as well” 

​THE DESIGNER 
​All Nirvana Jewellery is designed by master jeweller John Tarasin in Sydney, Australia. With over 30 years experience and expertise transferred from Tarasin Jewellers to Nirvana, you are guaranteed excellence in design and manufacture. Great importance has been given to the design and materials used in the crafting of Nirvana Jewellery. We use only pure and solid gold or sterling silver metals, as described in each piece.
*Should you need an adjustment to the ring size return it to Living Ocean and Nirvana will resize for a special Living Ocean price of $15
​** Should you want this ring in gold contact us for a special price.

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​Our sealife is disappearig. We're taking direct action to change that.
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Living Ocean is a not for profit charity that promotes the awareness of human impact on the ocean, through research, education, creative activity in the community, and support of others who sustain ocean health and integrity.
While always celebrating and honouring the natural environment and the life that the ocean offers us. Our focus is on:
 MARINE STUDIES & NO PLASTIC PLEASE

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Work with our COMMUNITY to expand knowledge and actively change our relationship with our oceans. Through collaboration with individuals and organisations, we conceive, create and coordinate campaigns that educate all layers of our community.

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​We support specific objectives to fund research and direct action for change by independent groups that cover a wide range of ocean life. From whales to turtles to sharks and seabirds and much more, we help fund direct action.

"I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us."
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​— Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer

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