The Alternative Port Working Party is a community action group based in Whyalla, South Australia on the shore of northern Spencer Gulf.
They believe that the chosen locations for proposed facilities in the Port Bonython and Point Lowly area present unacceptable compromises, and thus have recommended a number of alternatives.
The Alternative Port Working Party (APWP) began as an offshoot of another community action group called the Cuttlefish Coast Coalition, which sought to preserve the marine environment around Point Lowly.
[4] The group also maintains that a diesel importation and distribution hub failed to consider implications for the marine environment[5] and could be relocated closer to Whyalla at a more appropriate site[6][7] and that a large scale reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant for the Olympic Dam mine could 'open the floodgates for the industrialization of Point Lowly.
'[8] The group is concerned that a loss in tourism visitation will adversely impact Whyalla's economy should industrialization plans proceed near Point Lowly, and that the area could be considered an emerging 'tourism hotspot'.