Outrage at Woodside’s Northwest Shelf Gas Project’s extension
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Newly appointed Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has given the green light to extend Woodside’s Northwest Shelf Gas Project in Western Australia – a decision that’s taken six years to reach with conditional approval.
Plans will see the life of the nation’s largest oil and gas project shift beyond 2030 to 2070 – a move that has prompted major blowback from Indigenous traditional custodians, conservationists, some politicians and academics across the country.
Speaking at a press conference at her office in Brisbane, Leader of the Greens and Senator for Queensland, Larissa Waters, slammed the announcement.
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