Woodside forced to change tack
Woodside, Australia’s largest oil and gas company with a license to drill for natural gas in the Rakhine Basin, has felt the pressure of community protests and changed tack.
Following the February 1 coup, Woodside initially said their “drilling campaign remains on schedule”. Chief Executive Officer Peter Coleman told
Energy News Bulletin, “It’s not up to us to judge the veracity of grievances [the military] have around the previous election process.”
In response to the vehement backlash to these comments, Coleman released a media statement on February 19, which said: “I regret that I made some remarks in a media interview that have been interpreted as condoning what has occurred in Myanmar.”
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It started with a tweet.
Janine Hendry, a 58-year-old Melbourne academic, designer, entrepreneur and mother pondered on Twitter how many âextremely disgruntledâ women it would take to link arms around Parliament House and stand in silent protest against discrimination and alleged sexual abuse in the nationâs Parliament.
A tweet from academic, designer and mother Janine Hendry formed the spark for protest marches across the country.
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âIt was a visceral anger ⦠just this growing frustration and sense amongst my followers and friends this is outrageous, we have had enough,â Ms Hendry says.
Within two hours she had a very precise response from âsome lovely personâ. If there were two people per metre, they tweeted, it would take 3770 people.