Port Phillip Conservation Council campaign against an oil pipeline across Port Phillip

Port Phillip Conservation Council Inc.

A0020093K Victoria ABN 46 291 176 191 Founded in 1970

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Major Campaign No. 2: Oil Pipeline across Port Phillip

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* PPCC Inc. opposed the 600 mm diameter crude oil pipeline above proposed in 1970 from Brighton to Williamstown buried in the seabed of Port Phillip - under the main shipping channel - because it was:

An obvious threat of unacceptable pollution of the northernmost section of Port Phillip and its coastline with leakage - of up to the 9,000 litres between its two coastal crossings - of crude oil in the event of pipeline failure through corrosion, sabotage, or ships, or their anchors breaking it,
An ad hoc decision to introduce an industrial facility into a large natural area not previously industrialized, and one made in the total absence of any provision or forethought about the need to create a safe, accessible common pipelines corridor around Melbourne, and
The foreshore reserves or seabed of Port Phillip should not be disrupted on such a scale for commercial or industrial purposes.

* Port Phillip Conservation Council held a 1970 meeting in the Melbourne Town Hall to explain its case
against the oil pipeline proposal, which 2,000 people attended.

* The Bolte Liberal Government eventually agreed that the pipeline should be routed entirely on land, which
was where it was finally constructed.

* See the pipeline industry's account of the project.