The Biodiversity Council has urged the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) to reject the 'TGS Otway Basin 3D Multi Client Seismic Survey – Environment Plan' due to four key areas of concern:

1. Misrepresentation of the spatial distribution of the Bonney Upwelling and its biological significance.
2. Seismic survey kills Zooplankton and we do not know what the significance of the kills are at a population level, an unacceptable risk to the entire region’s ecology.
3. There are unacceptable impacts on cetaceans. The impacts on fish and eels are poorly understood.
4. Keeray Wooroong and Gunditjmara and people have not been adequately consulted.

Read our 6-page submission for further details.