WA landholders celebrate cancellation of gas exploration permit

The Whicher Range gas licence has not been renewed.

Landholders are celebrating after a gas exploration lease south of the environmentally sensitive Whicher Range, near Margaret River, was cancelled on November 11 after it expired and was not renewed.

Mariah de Cerquiera from the Whicher Range Action Group said the cancellation was a victory for the local campaign to save the area from being turned into an industrialised gasfield.

“The gas industry does not have a social licence to operate in this area and this cancellation is a welcome step forward to protecting the livelihoods, water, land and health of people living and working in this area,” she said.

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