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Oct 30 • 11 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
#BREAKING: A Tiwi Traditional Owner is heading to the Federal Court in a bid to prevent Santos from building its Barossa gas export pipeline through ancestors’ burial grounds and Songlines, without proper assessment of significant risks to cultural heritage.

📸: Tymunna Clements Image
Simon Munkara, a member of the Jikilaruwu clan, filed proceedings yesterday and applied for an urgent injunction to prevent Santos commencing pipeline work while the case is heard.

Read more below. 📸: Tymunna Clements edo.org.au/2023/10/31/tiw…
Traditional Owner Simon Munkara will argue Santos has not properly assessed submerged cultural heritage along the route of its Barossa export pipeline, which runs within seven kilometres of Cape Fourcroy on Bathurst Island.

More below.📸: Tymunna Clements
edo.org.au/2023/10/31/tiw…
Mr Munkara will argue that the approval Santos is relying on is of an Environment Plan that was accepted by offshore regulator NOPSEMA in March 2020, without an assessment of the risks to underwater cultural heritage.

Read more below.📸: Tymunna Clements
edo.org.au/2023/10/31/tiw…
It was also approved before another case brought by Munupi man Dennis Tipakalippa established Traditional Owners’ consultation rights in relation to the Barossa Gas Project and other offshore developments.

📸: Rebecca Parker & @EnviroCentreNT
Tiwi Traditional Owners have commissioned reports from independent experts, who confirmed that, if installed in the current proposed location, the pipeline would damage Sea Country, dreaming tracks, Songlines and areas of cultural significance.
Mr Munkara says commencing the pipeline work under these circumstances breaches environmental regulations because there is a significant new environmental impact or risk that has not been assessed and accounted for in the Environment Plan.
Mr Munkara will ask the Federal Court for an injunction to prevent pipeline activities from proceeding until Santos has submitted a proposed revision of the Environment Plan and NOPSEMA has made a decision about the resubmitted plan.
“We are going to court because we can’t let Santos build a pipeline through our Songlines and our ancestor’s burial grounds. I don’t want it to be destroyed.” - Traditional Owner Simon Munkara

📸: Tymunna Clements
edo.org.au/2023/10/31/tiw…
“We have kept our stories alive for thousands of years and I want to be able to share this with future generations, with my kids and grandkids and their kids.” - Traditional Owner Simon Munkara

📸: Tymunna Clements
edo.org.au/2023/10/31/tiw…
“Santos doesn’t want to hear this story, so we are going to court. My Country, both the land and sea, it’s everything to me and my kids. The sea is part of us.” - Traditional Owner Simon Munkara

📸: Tymunna Clements
edo.org.au/2023/10/31/tiw…

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🧵 below. edo.org.au/2022/12/13/edo…
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“We want the whole world to hear our voice.”

“We want the whole world to see our power.”

“We have fought to protect our sea country from the beginning to the end and we will never stop fighting.”

- Tiwi Traditional Owner Dennis Tipakalippa
“Our sea is like our mother - we are part of the sea and the sea is part of us. Santos and every other gas company must take note that this is our country and we must be consulted,” Tiwi Traditional Owner Dennis Tipakalippa said.
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