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Photo by Wilderness Society\/twitter<\/p><\/div>\n

Activists from the Wilderness Society, Sea Shepherd, Friends of the Earth and others came together this morning outside BP Australia’s headquarters on Bourke Street Melbourne to stage a mock oil spill. They are highlighting the massive risks from BP oil exploration in the Great Australian Bight.<\/p>\n

These risks are considerable and multiple including the climate risk of exceeding the 2C temperature limit agreed to at the Paris UN climate talks, and the risk of an oil spill damaging the pristine marine and coastal environment from Western Australia to Victoria and Tasmania.<\/p>\n

The mock oil spill provided effective street theatre on Bourke Street outside BP’s Melbourne offices. Some people dressed in decontamination suits with 44 gallon drums as props containing the BP insignia. Protestors chanted “BP has no right, no right to risk the bight”.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in London, the message was taken to the British Museum with light projections on the facade. (See BP or not BP<\/a>) BP is presently sponsoring an exhibition at the museum on Egypt’s ‘Sunken Cities’. A little ironical considering they are contributing to sealevel rise and the next round of flooded or sunken cities. A letter<\/a> recently published in the Guardian from almost 100 respected figures urged the British Museum\u2019s new director to drop BP as a sponsor.<\/p>\n