Newspaper endorses CEO Meg O’Neill’s position the company’s gas is needed but doesn’t mention global heating
The West Australian ran four pieces by or about Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill last Friday warning ‘reams of red tape’ were endangering gas supplies, without any pushback.The West Australian ran four pieces by or about Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill last Friday warning ‘reams of red tape’ were endangering gas supplies, without any pushback., based on recent evidence. It can place its message unchallenged in Perth’s local daily without the inconvenience of having to pay for it.
The work has been delayed at a cost to the company claimed to be in the tens of millions of dollars. In her piece O’Neill argued that Woodside had consulted extensively, including with 11 First Nations groups, and called on the federal government to work with industry to “fix the logjam of offshore approvals” and “ensure the new gas we all need can be brought to market”.
Australia’s resources minister sees a gas-fired future just as the International Energy Agency charts the fossil fuel’s decline | Temperature CheckO’Neill didn’t claim that all gas from Scarborough would be used locally – she said the gasfield would supply energy to both “WA and customers in Asia for decades to come” – but the piece implied that Western Australians would be chief beneficiaries.
Alex Hillman, a former staff adviser at Woodside and now a lead analyst with the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, says an even smaller proportion of gas from other Woodside developments stays in WA for use locally. “Pluto has provided about 1% of its production to the domestic gas market, with 99% being sent overseas as LNG,” he says.
Government data suggests gas production and use is responsible for about a fifth – 21% – of climate pollution in Australia. Extraction and production of gas from Scarborough and Browse, another potential new field backed by Woodside, would add to this.
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