{"id":148,"date":"2023-03-29T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2023-08-02T19:39:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:39:28","slug":"ecoquips-founder-david-sharp-awarded-chevrons-harry-butler-champion-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/ecoquips-founder-david-sharp-awarded-chevrons-harry-butler-champion-award\/","title":{"rendered":"EcoQuip\u2019s founder David Sharp awarded Chevrons \u201cHarry Butler Champion Award\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harry Butler was an Australian-born naturalist and environmental consultant. He played a major role in environmental conservation and restoration in Australia with a long list of contributions and achievements which also included being named the 1979 Australian of the Year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Chevron first stepped onto Barrow Island more than 50 years ago, Harry Butler was a young enthusiastic conservationist who was with them right from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout Harry Butler’s career, he assisted Chevron to find solutions to allow operations to move forward without compromising environmental conservation values. Harry Butler\u2019s lifetime dedication to Australian biodiversity & environmental conservation has left a remarkable legacy. Through Murdoch University\u2019s Harry Butler Institute, shaping the next generation of leaders in conservation and environmental management, his legacy lives on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, EcoQuip\u2019s founder and General Manager David Sharp was awarded Chevron’s \u201cHarry Butler Champion Award\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award was for \u201cThe development of EcoQuip\u2019s Mobile Solar Lighting Towers to assist in the management of lighting performance and carbon emission reduction on Barrow Island. EcoQuip\u2019s Mobile Solar Light Towers replaced diesel-fuelled lighting towers thereby eliminating noise, carbon emissions, risk of hydrocarbon spills and improved lighting requirements on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EcoQuip\u2019s initiative resulted in environmental, safety and cost benefits for Chevron. EcoQuip\u2019s dedication to Harry Butler’s legacy reinforces the principle that business and biodiversity can co-exist\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harry Butler was an Australian-born naturalist and environmental consultant. He played a major role in environmental conservation and restoration in Australia with a long list of contributions and achievements which also included being named the 1979 Australian of the Year. When Chevron first stepped onto Barrow Island more than 50 years ago, Harry Butler was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":4,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/37bf2b657ae28a68aa1c857c1dc06e9da9e77adb.jpg",586,400,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"paddy-dorado","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/author\/paddy-dorado\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":4,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":4,"category_count":3,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoquipaustralia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}