Three-line email calls off an international conglomerate's bid to conduct Australia's largest seismic blast survey in search of gas in the Otway Basin.
Plans for the largest seismic testing survey in Australian history have been abandoned days before the application was set to be resubmitted.
It was a plan that was met with a barrage of opposition from communities across the coast and had been sent back for revision twice by Australia's gas regulator, the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority . "We have notified NOPSEMA of this decision, withdrawing the current Environment Plan from NOPSEMA assessment."
NOPSEMA has only rejected four seismic survey applications since 2012, so environmental campaigners say their goal is to make obtaining a permit so difficult for proponents that they withdraw applications on their own.With more than 30,000 submissions made on the TGS proposal and hundreds of people attending protests across Victoria's south-west coast, federal member for Corangamite Libby Coker called the decision to withdraw the application a "testament" to community advocacy.
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