Woodside Petroleum's LNG tankers and pipelines may jeopardize endangered and threatened wildlife
- Threatened gray whales, endangered blue whales and other marine animals will compete for space with Woodside Petroleum’s LNG tankers, each the size of three football fields lined end-to-end.
- The endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly lives on sand dunes along side the path for Woodside Petroleum’s onshore pipeline.
Both on- and off-shore LNG operations pose serious risks to Southern Californian wildlife.
Ocean
2007 was the deadliest year for blue whales from ship strikes off the California coast. Gray whales migrating north from Baja with their calves travel through some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Woodside Petroleum’s LNG tankers place these protected animals at even greater risk.
Land
One of the last populations of the endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly lives in the sand dunes of El Segundo, right next to LAX. As if the airport’s construction and traffic, oil refining, sand mining and urban development weren’t stress enough, Woodside plans to construct a pipeline next to this remaining critical habitat.