"An oil spill in the Bight would be catastrophic," they wrote in the letter last month, adding, "The Bight is wild and pristine and should remain that way."
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I agree that the Canto Bight scene slows things down.
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"The Great Australian Bight is Australia's Galápagos," said Jeff Hansen, who led a ship from the environmental activist group Sea Shepherd, which docked in the state this month to persuade politicians to protect the Bight.
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Carrie Fisher's dog, Gary, inspired a space dog on Canto Bight.
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They are apparently headed off to the Casino world of Canto Bight.
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The Great Australian Bight is located off the south coast of Australia.
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In 1974, more than 3 million tons were dumped in the Bight.
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She called the Bight one of the world's best-kept environmental secrets.
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Hard-press on the flashlight icon to choose bight, medium or low light.
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"The Leftovers" actor Justin Theroux played an important minor role on Canto Bight.
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"Star Wars" actor Warwick Davis showed up as an alien on Canto Bight.
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He was last detected Tuesday in the New York Bight, south of Long Island.
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Acid waste was also dumped in the New York Bight, 15 miles off-shore.
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An issue close to my heart is the drilling in the Great Australian Bight.
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Theroux played the master codebreaker Finn and Rose were searching for on Canto Bight.
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"The communities of the Bight, traditional owners and the thousands of people in the seafood and tourism industries whose livelihoods depend on healthy oceans will never accept oil drilling in the Bight," Greenpeace Australia Pacific senior campaigner Nathaniel Pelle said in a statement.
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Environmental group Greenpeace said it hoped Equinor would follow BP Plc in abandoning the Bight.
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David Maurice Smith's view of the Great Australian Bight is magnificent with its absorbing depth.
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But this is the first time Ocearch has set its sights on the New York Bight.
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Southern right whale and calf spotted along the coast of the Head of Bight in South Australia.
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The shallow waters are perfect for a dip, and snorkeling enthusiasts should check out the Bight Reef.
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In the meantime, they are calling for the Bight to be listed as a World Heritage site.
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This new anthology is set in one of the film's upcoming locations, the casino world of Canto Bight.
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He actually asked director Rian Johnson for a second role in the movie, during the Canto Bight sequence.
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Rubble is loaded into barges before being dumped offshore, on a debris dump site, in the New York Bight.
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But now the waters, known here as the Great Australian Bight, or just the Bight for short, have drawn a different sort of resource industry: The Norwegian oil giant Statoil plans to start drilling by the end of 2019 to tap what experts call one of the world's great remaining natural gas reserves.
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It appears to happen at Canto Bight, given that Finn is still dressed in his undercover uniform when it happens.
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Norway's Statoil picked up some of BP's Great Australian Bight stakes in June, giving it full control of two permits.
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The entire sequence in Canto Bight felt like an overextended attempt at recapturing the magic of Mos Eisley's famous cantina.
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Cottrell, meanwhile, enters onto a two fight losing streak, having lost his second most recent bight to Michel "Trator" Prazeres.
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"We have too much at stake to allow oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight to occur," Ms. Lavers said.
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The gun-control movement goes global, the North Korean defectors who didn't make it, and the fight over the Bight.
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Chris Johnson, an ocean sciences manager at WWF Australia in Melbourne, is involved in whale research in the Great Australian Bight.
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The Canto Bight casino sequence in Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a big moment for eagle-eyed easter egg hunters.
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This is one of four New York City-owned vessels on its way to dump sludge 12 miles into the bight.
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The Taurids' Northern stream sometimes brings bight fireballs when it overlaps with the Southern stream in late October and early November.
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The movie's newest location of Canto Bight happens to be the exact same city as Game of Thrones' Kings Landing: Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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Star Wars: Canto Bight by Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, Mira Grant, John Jackson Miller Star Wars: The Last Jedi is almost here.
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In the coming centuries, they'll form a bight constellation of their own that people on Earth will gaze up at in wonder.
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Karoon, which won an exploration permit only last week, described the Bight as Australia's "most active and prospective frontier oil exploration province".
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Last year, the Wilderness Society commissioned oceanographer Laurent Lebreton to independently assess the potential impacts of an oil spill in the bight.
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"Bight" is a nautical term referring to the characteristic bend of the bay; the name does not arise from its bitelike shape.
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MOCA had previewed a short cut of Hazel's film, Bight Of The Twin, Matt had seen it and wanted us to get together.
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The firm has pulled out of potentially expensive greenfield projects, such as the Great Australian Bight, and opted for better-known territories instead.
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There was never any question that the new Star Wars would have some secrets tucked away, and Canto Bight was a likely home.
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In the mid-113s, Woodside Petroleum had to pull out of its drilling in the bight due to the harshness of the conditions.
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As the Wilderness Society points out, 85 percent of the species found in the bight cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
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BP said that Statoil, a 30 percent partner in the exploration licences for four blocks in the Bight, had accepted its decision to withdraw.
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Researchers from Murdoch University, supported by WWF Australia, are monitoring the whales as they breed in the Great Australian Bight in the country's south.
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While it is very early days, success in the [Great Australian Bight] would attract investment to South Australia and see significant local job creation.
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In a victory for environmentalists, oil giant BP announced Tuesday it would not proceed with its plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight.
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Whether to open the Bight to drilling was a crucial issue in the election this past week to select lawmakers for the State Parliament.
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Opening the Bight to drilling would help Australia stay on track to eclipse Qatar as the world's largest exporter of natural gas by 2020.
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Canto Bight — the Las Vegas of the galaxy — is where the rich go to spend their cash, test their luck, and get absolutely turnt.
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Another peels back the many audio layers behind a split-second moment with BB-8 and a drunken alien gambler during the Canto Bight scene.
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"If this project goes ahead, we really are gambling with the future of the Great Australian Bight," Greens Senator Robert Simms said told the ABC.
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This is the prime time to go whale-watching in New York Bight, Mr. Paladino added, with the season for sightings between May and November.
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Does this go back to the end of "The Last Jedi" when it was suggested that the broom boy on Canto Bight had Force powers?
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Canto Bight has been described as the Las Vegas of Star Wars, but it might be more appropriate to call it the Monaco of Star Wars.
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Australian authorities have also refused so far to allow BP to explore the Great Australian Bight, an untapped basin off the southern coast, amid environment protests.
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The Bight has been called Australia's answer to the Galápagos: a stretch of ocean facing the Antarctic that is home to calving whales and teeming fisheries.
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The area is also a breeding nursery for the endangered southern right whale, with up to 55 calves born at the head of the bight each year.
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It is estimated about 6 million gallons of coal were dumped into the New York Bight by the Edison Power Plant in Manhattan in the early 1970s.
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That finding is important for conservation, Mr. Rosenbaum said, because the whales were in the New York Bight at least once before mandatory speed restrictions were enforced.
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Besides serving as the setting for King's Landing in Game of Thrones, Dubrovnik is also the location for Star Wars's alien haven, the Casino City of Canto Bight.
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But many people fear that the Bight, much of which extends along the state of South Australia, could face catastrophic damage in the event of an oil spill.
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Surfers who oppose drilling in the Bight plan to take their message to Norway next month by paddling out and protesting in front of the Oslo Opera House.
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"The approval of the Stromlo-1 exploration well Environment Plan confirmed our ability to safely operate in the Bight," Equinor's Australia manager Jone Stangeland said in a statement.
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"The approval of the Stromlo-1 exploration well Environment Plan confirmed our ability to safely operate in the Bight," Equinor's Australia manager Jone Stangeland said in a statement.
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That's because one of the film's new worlds, the casino planet of Canto Bight, is actually the very same location as Game of Thrones' King's Landing, according to Nerdist.
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It will monitor whale calls within the New York Bight, the wedge of continental shelf that lies between the South Shore of Long Island and the New Jersey coast.
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Port Lincoln, a small seaside town of around 16,000 where sealing and whaling reaches back to the 1820s, is the main jumping-off point for access to the Bight.
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The gathering was part of a series of protests against oil and gas drilling in the Great Australian Bight, home to some of the world's most unusual marine life.
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"Equinor is proposing a lesser standard for the Bight than they would propose in the Norwegian Sea," said Ms. Soliman Hunter, of the Aberdeen University Center for Energy Law.
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This was a number of years ago, a fishing trip, long days spent out on the flats of the Bight of Acklins with a local guide named Fidel Johnson.
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Green groups have fought against drilling in the Great Australian Bight, warning that oil spills in the notoriously rough waters could threaten whale breeding grounds, pristine coastline and fishing towns.
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Owen told VICE that while there has been oil exploration in this bight before, it's never been as far off the coast or to the depth that BP is proposing.
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And candidates who support the proposal argue that opening the Bight to drilling would create jobs and wealth for decades to come in the struggling postindustrial area of South Australia.
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They're monitoring southern right whales in the Great Australian Bight and have revealed that females lose an extraordinary amount of weight while fattening up their calves, before journeying back to Antarctica.
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In 1998, Mr. Durst published "The Menemsha Mussels," a photography book with a humorous take on the bivalve mollusks that inhabit the Menemsha Bight, near his summer home on Martha's Vineyard.
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For those unafraid of long drives or endless expanses of arid country, take a trip across the Nullarbor Plain and you'll find the Head of Bight on the South Australian coastline.
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The Goat Islands and Hellshire Hills are part of the Portland Bight Protected Area, which was established in 1999 and contains mangroves, unique forests, limestone outcroppings, coral reefs and fish sanctuaries.
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Green groups want the regulator to bar Equinor from drilling in the Bight, concerned that oil spills in the extremely rough waters could threaten whale breeding grounds, fishing areas and pristine coastlines.
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The company, which considers the Bight "a highly prospective asset", plans to start drilling exploration wells in ultra deep waters 372 km (223 miles) off the South Australian coast in late 2020.
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The first such event to raise alarms about the Great Australian Bight was held this month at Bells Beach, a renowned surfing spot southwest of Melbourne, and it drew thousands of people.
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The bight blue light emitted by the screen can make it more difficult to fall asleep and mess with your sleep cycle, which could lead to a whole host of health problems.
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Another wall carving, rendered in high relief, arrived from the Roman city walls of Lincoln at East Bight, while one from Long Bennington shows a figure mounted on a two-legged phallus.
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The team's Bight drone project lasted three months, whereas he estimated that a plane doing the same job might cost roughly between A$403,000 (US$2,298) to A$10,000 (US$7,659) per day.
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The image is in the casino of Canto Bight and behind John Boyega's Finn and Kelly Marie Tran's Rose is an otherworldly being who is holding a rumpled alien pet with bugging eyes.
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In the best-case scenario, with the spill having an "optimistic" flow rate and being capped within 35 days, the modeling predicts that 175,000 barrels of oil would be released into the bight.
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Putting the risks to one side, Peter Owen says opening up the bight to deep sea drilling is the completely wrong direction for Australia to be moving in after the Paris climate talks.
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"You can't stop the development in the Bight," said Mr. Stehr, one of the town's best-known tuna barons, in his Port Lincoln office, surrounded by photographs of himself with former prime ministers.
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Last month, Equinor made public its environmental plan, which experts said showed that a major oil spill in the Bight could cause environmental damage along several thousand miles of the southern Australia coast.
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One of its most offensive moves occurred in 2015, when it displayed the object in a major exhibition sponsored by BP, which was then pushing to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight.
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And there was a statement from Bunna Lawrie, a member of Australia's indigenous community fighting BP's plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight, an area of outstanding natural beauty and deep cultural significance.
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The worst-case scenario for allowing drilling in the Bight is of course an oil spill, which was what happened to BP in 211 during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
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"Most have decided that hurricanes are just part of the way of life living down here and have come to terms with them," said David Hawthorne, dockmaster of Garrison Bight Marina in the area.
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Coral Sea NORTHERN TERRITORY AUSTRALIA QUEENSLAND SOUTH australia NEW SOUTH WALES Great Australian Bight Ariah Park Sydney VICTORIA Tasman Sea 500 miles By The New York Times But then real-life socializing takes over.
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On a very basic storytelling level, the Canto Bight sequences fulfill a purpose common to Star Wars: they give a few characters a task and a little time to build their relationship through shared danger.
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His organization has been studying whales in the New York Bight, the section of the Atlantic Ocean that stretches between Montauk Point on Long Island and Cape May, N.J. Unfortunately, this progress is at risk.
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And surfing's biggest names — like Mick Fanning, a three-time world champion, and Steph Gilmore, a seven-time world champion — have pleaded in an open letter for the Bight to be kept free of drilling.
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In "The Last Jedi," new creatures like the crystal foxes, called vulptices, are seen dashing across the mineral covered world Crait, while 14-foot-tall horselike fathiers race through the casino city of Canto Bight.
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"Canto Bight" is a shameless attempt at a new "Cantina Band" and I am HERE FOR IT. It opens like any other cinematic score piece and then in comes the tambourine and the freaking mariachi.
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According to Art Not Oil, most of the Aboriginal communities consulted during the planning phase did not know of BP's involvement, which overlapped with the company's contentious fight to drill in the Great Australian Bight.
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Their journey takes them to a brand new corner of the galaxy – the wealthy arms-dealing planet Canto Bight – where a mysterious but resourceful stranger DJ (Benicio del Toro) provides their only option for potential success.
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He said the company remains committed to gaining approval to drill one exploration well in the Bight in late 2020 to early 2021 and would continue to engage with stakeholders and local communities about its plans.
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Truls Gulowsen, head of Greenpeace Norway, said the name change would not be sufficient to improve Statoil's image as long as the firm was exploring in vulnerable areas, such as the Arctic or the Great Australian Bight.
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The Canto Bight sequence in The Last Jedi revealed that this is a galaxy built on the backs of the poor and unlucky, while Finn is proof that some stormtroopers can free their minds of Imperial dogma.
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When the heroes of the Resistance realize that the First Order has been tracking their fleet, they seek the services of a master codebreaker in the high-end gambling resort of Canto Bight, to disable the beacon.
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Prior to The Last Jedi's release, former Jim Henson's Creature Shop designer Neal Scanlon told Syfy Wire that the look of Canto Bight is important, because it expands Star Wars' design sensibility into an entirely new area.
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When Mr. Curtis and other researchers compiled records of 200 years of great white shark sightings in the North Atlantic, they found that two-thirds of newborn sharks were documented in the New York Bight, he said.
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And a plan to open "the Bight" — a pristine stretch of ocean that's home to calving whales and teeming fisheries — to Norwegian drilling could help the country eclipse Qatar as the world's largest exporter of natural gas.
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Investors like BlackRock realize they have to transition away from fossil fuels; Norway's Equinor has decided to not drill in the Great Australian Bight; Canada's Teck Corporation has decided against the Frontier oil sands project in Alberta.
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In Australia, plans to drill for natural gas offshore in the Great Australian Bight, known as Australia's Galápagos, have drawn criticism from the fishing and tourism industries, which the potential of a spill is too great a risk.
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Chevron's move follows a decision by BP Plc a year ago to walk away from the waters known as the Great Australian Bight, which industry consultants Wood Mackenzie have estimated could hold 1.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
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"While the Great Australian Bight is one of Australia's most prospective frontier hydrocarbon regions, in the current low oil price environment it was not able to compete for capital in Chevron's global portfolio," Chevron said in a statement.
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In a video about the new worlds of The Last Jedi, director Rian Johnson casually mentions that Dubrovnik was the perfect place to shoot Canto Bight, as if the city's name hasn't become synonymous with Thrones in nerd culture.
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"While several other companies continue to develop exploration plans for the bight, the international environment for the oil and gas industry is challenging," Matthew Doman, a director at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, said in a statement.
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The team fly DJI Inspire 1 Pro drones off the cliffs of the Great Australian Bight with the permission of the Aboriginal Lands Trust, allowing them to minimise disturbance to the animals while getting high resolution images and measurements.
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A listening device, slightly smaller than a football, rests on the sea floor of the New York Bight, the body of water that stretches between Montauk Point in Long Island and Cape May, N.J. The contraption is named Melville.
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It seemed like "The Last Jedi" director Rian Johnson was making a big sweeping statement at the end of the eighth film when it ended on a young boy from Canto Bight who was revealed to be Force-sensitive.
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"The news Chevron has given up on drilling in the bight means the coastal communities of Southern Australia have dodged another bullet, but the threat of Statoil still looms," Greenpeace Australia Pacific Senior Campaigner Nathaniel Pelle said in a statement.
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BP was forced to revise its Bight plans late last year and was awaiting decisions by the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority on two wells this month and a broader environmental plan by the end of the year.
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The Wilderness Society, which has long fought to stop drilling in the Great Australian Bight area that also contains a protected marine park, on Tuesday urged the federal government to terminate BP's leases and cancel all exploration permits in the basin.
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Mr. Sieswerda said warming oceans had brought vast schools of menhaden — a favorite fish of humpbacks, which eat more than a Volkswagen Beetle's weight of seafood every day — from their usual haunts off Chesapeake Bay north to the New York Bight.
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But experts say the Bight also holds one of the world's great remaining natural gas reserves, and Equinor, a company controlled by the Norwegian government that was once known as Statoil, plans to begin drilling by the end of this year.
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The pressure to seek an oil and gas bonanza is especially intense because of local politics: Much of the Bight extends along the state of South Australia, a struggling postindustrial area where talk of jobs and economic growth dominated a recent local election.
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The gathering, on Bondi Beach in Sydney, was part of a series of protests that have gathered force in recent weeks across Australia in an effort to protect the Great Australian Bight, a haven for some of the world's most unusual marine life.
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Let your eyes skim over this tweet if you don't want to be spoiled on what the hotshot pilot is required to wear with his suit during a mission in which he's posing as an arms dealer from Canto Bight: Poe Dameron in an ascot.
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A hot sunny day combined with the effect from the hydrogen peroxide dump caused bight green algae to bloom in the water, while strong winds rattled divers and even knocked out Chinese world champion He Chao in the men's individual 3 meter springboard preliminaries.
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"International oil companies, Chevron and Statoil still have plans to drill for oil in the Bight, but they should look to BP who cited the fact the lack of financial value in the project as the main reason they were walking away," she added.
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"The Great Australian Bight waters are deeper, more treacherous and more remote than the Gulf of Mexico, where BP was responsible for 800 million litres of oil spewing into the Gulf for 87 days in 2010," Wilderness Society South Australia director Peter Owen added.
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There's no new reveals here: the planets of Canto Bight, Crait, and Ahch-To have popped up in the film's two trailers, but each use real world locations to add to the fantastic variety of worlds we're familiar with in the Star Wars universe.
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The term "bight" is related to the words "bend" and "bow," and it refers to the crescent shape of a bay, with a curve shallow enough that mariners in a square-rigged ship could sail out in a single tack, regardless of wind direction.
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Computer modeling by the British oil company BP, which withdrew in 2016 from its plan to drill in the Bight, projected that an accident similar to the Deepwater Horizon blowout in 2010 could cause environmental damage along a wide stretch of the southern Australian coastline.
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Oceans: We've done a lot of in-depth ocean coverage already (the Great Australian Bight; assisted evolution and coral reefs) but is it worth expanding into other areas, from the business of the seas to more in-depth looks at the impact of climate change?
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That might not be entirely true, according to Del Toro, whose character goes by the name DJ. He will apparently show up when Finn and Ross journey to Canto Bight, but Del Toro claims to EW that he doesn't know where the villain discussion is coming from.
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"If you don't have the data on prey and prey depletion at the New York Bight level, that's a concern," said Howard Rosenbaum, a biologist who directs the Ocean Giants program at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and has studied whales for over 30 years.
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Previous Star Wars films have largely dealt with down-and-out characters scraping by in junkyards and slums, but Canto Bight is a haven for the decadent super-rich, who've been largely untouched by what's happening with the First Order and the Resistance — aside from taking money from both.
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We see creature shop maestro Neal Scanlan and costume designer Michael Kaplan surrounded by their black-tie and ballgown creations from the extras in the Canto Bight casino, and learn much, much more about Fisher's firebrand presence on set and her connection to the other cast and crew.
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In the past, he said, a study to, say, observe the size of breeding whales would require flying an airplane at low altitude, and even briefly sticking one's head and camera outside the aircraft at high speed to capture images as detailed as those done by drone during the Bight project.
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Emails show that the oil and gas company allegedly had final say over the purchase and inclusion of an artwork by painters from the indigenous Australian Spinifex group in the British Museum exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civilization, which coincided with BP's push last year to drill in the Great Australian Bight.
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The Great Australian Bight project has been condemned by environmental groups who say it would damage whale and sea lion breeding grounds, but BP's withdrawal can only be viewed as a partial victory for campaigners because the company and a number of others still hold exploration permits for the area.
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BP's previous proposal, which was rejected by the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environment Management Authority (NOPSEMA) last November for not meeting environmental standards, would see four exploration wells drilled 2000–287 kilometers [24.35–123 miles] into the Great Australian Bight, a large body of water to the country's southwest.
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This featurette showcases those real-world locations: Dubrovnik, Croatia stood in for Canto Bight, the salt flats of Salar De Uyuni, Bolivia became Crait, while director Rian Johnson returned to the island of Skellig Michael off the coast of Ireland, which we saw briefly at the end of The Force Awakens.
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It's within walking distance of bustling Duval Street, which runs the width of the island, and a few blocks from the Gulf of Mexico and Key West Bight Ferry Terminal, from which boats run to the Dry Tortugas islands (for snorkeling and kayaking) and to Fort Myers Beach and Marco Island.
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The bight, a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean between Cape May, N.J., and Montauk Point on Long Island, is home to more than two dozen species of sharks, said Merry Camhi, director of New York Seascape at the New York Aquarium and one of the scientists accompanying the Ocearch crew.
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While we've seen plenty of dive bars and low-rent "hives of scum and villainy" (to paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi), The Last Jedi writer-director Rian Johnson (Looper, Brick) will grant audiences a trip to a higher class of hang-out with scenes set at casino city called Canto Bight.
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Young people like Rey and the Canto Bight stableboy who retells the story of Luke's final battle are hinted to be the future of the force, and with the last Jedi gone they won't be tied down to the strict teachings of a thousand-year-old abstinence cult with cool swords.
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"We have looked long and hard at our exploration plans for the Great Australian Bight but, in the current external environment, we will only pursue frontier exploration opportunities if they are competitive and aligned to our strategic goals," Claire Fitzpatrick, BP's Managing Director for Exploration and Production in Australia, said in a statement.
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But some scientists point out that there is very little local data on menhaden populations, in part because the fish migrate widely; there is simply no way of knowing if industrial fishing in the New York Bight, as these waters are known, could send the whales further to sea in search of food.
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The most common complaint in this regard is that Finn and Rose's journey to the casino planet of Canto Bight is a slow, pointless distraction from the more immediately involving plots involving Rey and Poe, one that gums up the middle of the movie and doesn't amount to anything in terms of the plot.
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Rian Johnson says that there's going to be some structural similarities with The Empire Strikes Back, given the multiple, parallel storylines: Rey is off training with a grumpy Jedi Master, the Resistance is having some real trouble, all while Finn and company are dispatched on a mission to a casino metropolis called Canto Bight.
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Eat My friends and I had been fishing for striped bass for a few weeks, working the sandy flats of Peconic Bay, on Long Island, exactly as if we were chasing bonefish or permit across the shallows of the Bight of Acklins, in what are known as the Family Islands, northwest of Turks & Caicos.
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Episode VIII premiered at the Shrine Auditorium on the USC campus in Los Angeles, where an audience of some 6,000 stumbled bewildered from the massive screening — a stunning display of state-of-the-art sight and sound by Dolby, quite a feat given the sheer size of the room — and into the Canto Bight casino-themed party.
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After a fairly conventional Star Wars shot of the battle-scarred heroes regrouping on the main deck of the Millennium Falcon — the kind of image that would ordinarily lead directly to John Williams' rousing exit theme — Johnson cuts back to Canto Bight, where the impoverished, oppressed stable boys and girls are already sharing the legend of how Luke Skywalker returned to the fray to stall the First Order and buy his friends time to escape.
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