| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Four corners |
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Four corners (Television program)
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| Summary |
{The Kimberley coast} "is a wild and jagged shoreline hewn over millions of years: towering cliffs and gorges pummelled by powerful tides. Home to dugongs, turtles and crocodiles, a humpbacks' maternity ward, the Kimberley coast is nature's catwalk. Its seabed contains ancient bounty: vast natural gas reserves rivalling the famed North West Shelf and worth untold billions of dollars as refined export LNG. This gift of nature is eyed warily by some Kimberley people. They look southward and fear that new pipelines, an emissions-chugging 10-square kilometre refining plant and a fly-in, fly-out workforce will "Pilbarise" their region. But development seems almost unstoppable. Even mainstream green groups support it – reluctantly – dragged in the wake of the powerful indigenous body, the Kimberley Land Council. Just about everyone is up for a deal – conservationists to minimise the environmental impact, the KLC to reap maximum economic benefit. Now the race is on to finalise a single site for the massive on-shore refinery, and Four Corners is there to witness as the pressure builds. The whales are a spectacular symbol of the Kimberley’s natural grandeur – but how much are they and their wider habitat under threat from shipping, pipelines and a large on-shore refinery? And what if development is stopped – where lies the economic future of Kimberley Aboriginal people?" -- ABC TV website |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of ABC1 TV broadcast September 22, 2008. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
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DVD |
| Credits |
Producer, Steve Taylor ; editor, Jessica Miller ; executive producer, Sue Spencer |
| Performer |
Reporter, Matthew Carney |
| Notes |
Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
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No rating given |
| SUBJECT |
Kimberley (W.A.)
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| Subject |
Gas pipelines
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Liquefied natural gas -- Australia
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Kimberley Land Council (W.A.)
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Wilderness areas -- Australia
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| Author |
Carney, Matthew
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Taylor, Steve
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Miller, Jessica
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Spencer, Sue
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ABC-TV (Australia)
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