Energy Company Allowed To Test In Whale-breeding Area

FEDERAL Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has defended the decision to allow resources company Santos to conduct seismic testing near Warrnambool at the start of the southern right whales' calving season.

Whales May Have Fled Tests

AN UNDERWATER acoustics expert, who was a consultant to seismic testing at Warrnambool, says he cannot rule out suggestions that the work had deterred southern right whales from visiting their calving waters.