Final government approvals are granted for Woodside's controversial Scarborough LNG project off WA's north west coast, just days after a major report warns of the catastrophic dangers of fossil fuel emissions.
if net zero emissions were to be achieved by 2050.
The Scarborough project involves piping gas from the Scarborough gas fields, about 375 kilometres off the coast of WA, to an expanded Pluto processing facility near Karratha.But the IPCC report's modelling showed that gas usage would need to be reduced by 15 per cent on 2019 levels to limit global warming to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2050.
The report prompted a strong response from UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, who called investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure "moral and economic madness".Climate scientist Bill Hare, who was the lead author on a previous IPCC report, said the report showed that there was no room globally for a new gas project like Scarborough.
"Adding more gas to the system via Scarborough and other projects is actually going backwards because it's actually increasing emissions, not decreasing emissions," he said. "In other words, it's making the situation worse, it's causing longer term lock-in of carbon intensive energy, it's really completely the wrong direction."In a climate plan released last month, Woodside commited to net zero emissions by 2050 and a 30 per cent reduction by 2030.
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