The environmental groups say WA’s Environment Minister Reece Whitby should review the EPA’s recommendation to approve the 50-year LNG extension because it threatens to blow Australia’s carbon budget.
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has joined a queue of organisations appealing the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority decision to extend the life of Woodside Energy’s North West Shelf gas processing facility because they say the climate and environment impacts have not been properly considered.
Woodside said in a statement, “At a time of heightened concern around energy security, the NWS Project has an important role to play in delivering natural gas to local and international customers, providing energy that can support their decarbonisation commitments. Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO, David Ritter, said the EPA’s recommendation to allow Woodside’s North West Shelf project to be extended for another 50 years showed how fossil fuel companies can exploit weak environmental laws to continue polluting.
“Greenpeace is opposing the extension of the North West Shelf project because of the enormous climate-related damage it will wreak on our already vulnerable environment.
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