Saving Westernport Bay: A community takes on AGL

On October 17th 2017 AGL announced it would install a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) in Westernport Bay on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

We re-visit the story of the Save Westernport Campaign, broadcast on 3CR in June 2021, to look at what citizens are up against when they take on large corporations to protect the environment and the planet.

We hear from

Aunty Dyan Summers, Bunurong Elder, Bunurong Land Council

Save Westernport Campaign committee members (2017-2021)

Candy Van Rood, President

Jane Carnegie, Vice President

Julia Stockigt, Sect'y

Chris Atmore: Environmental Lawyer

Sacha Guggenheimer: Marine scientist

Belinda Lewis: Anthropologist

Music:  Marty Williams Experiment

Photo courtesy Julia Stockigt

Earth Matters Episode #1415

Produced by Judith Peppard