Footy club pressured to ditch $2 million a year fossil fuel sponsorship
Fremantle Football Club has been urged to dump fossil fuel giant Woodside as its long-time major sponsor – a break-up that would cost millions.
A campaign run by the Australian Conservation Foundation saw the group’s First Nations lead Josie Alec and former West Australian Premier Carmen Lawrence today deliver a petition with 8,000 signatures to the headquarters of the Dockers in Perth.
“It’s time for the Fremantle footy club to draw a line under the Woodside era,” Alec said. “Woodside is using Freo to greenwash its image.”
Instead of delivering a petition, they should deliver a brand that’s willing to take Woodside’s place on Freo’s jersey under the same, or better, commercial terms.
Modern activism: Complain about something and demand other people take action.
West Australia’s entire way of life is being threatened by climate change.
Parts of the north will be unliveable due to heat by 2070 and many beaches will be gone due to 15-30cm of sea level rise by 2050.
As one of biggest, and still expanding, oil and gas companies in the world, Woodside must take some of the blame.
There are other companies that are willing to step up and take over this sponsorship. Freemantle has to decide which side of history it wants to be on.
Maybe if those 800 signatories each supported The Dockers with, say $300 upfront, they’d gazump Woodside’s sponsorship. Action speaks larger than words.