Expert quashes oil spill drift concerns 29/10/2015

A scientist says West Australians have no need to worry about new oil exploration wells in the Great Australian Bight.

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A company wishes to explore for oil, and there have been fears a potential oil spill from the wells would drift westwards to Albany and beyond.

Oil spills expert Monique Gagnon says the heavy crude oil the explorers are seeking would degrade and sink before it had a chance to reach WA shores.

The Great Southern Weekender, October 29, 2015 p7

Mapping to help preserve Broome’s rare ecology 11/11/2015

While Broome is home to several unique and vulnerable ecosystems, two ecologists say builders and planners could take fairly simple steps to preserve them.

The Minyjuru tree within the restricted Broome PEC, provides a much coveted sweet fruit and traditional Yawuru Mayi (pictured).

The Minyjuru tree within the restricted Broome PEC, provides a much coveted sweet fruit and traditional Yawuru Mayi (pictured).

They have exhaustively mapped the four ecosystems so that making small zoning changes and planning new works and subdivisions around them would be a fairly simple matter most of the time.

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Fines for strays 12/11/2015

A southern WA shire is seeking the power to prosecute property owners who let their cattle stray on to roads.

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Vehicles collide with straying stock fairly frequently on Australian country roads, sometimes with fatal results.

If successfull, this would allow Kononup Shire to police straying stock on its own roads, but not those owned by the Main Roads Department.

The Great Southern Weekender Thursday, November 12, 2015.