Australia's environment minister said on Friday she is considering an indigenous group's request to scrap a planned A$4.5 billion ($3.1 billion) fertiliser plant due to concerns about its potential impact on ancient indigenous rock art.
Two members of the Murujuga indigenous group this week wrote the two-month-old Labor government asking it to prevent Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilisers from starting construction on the urea plant on the Burrup Peninsula, which has received works approvals from the Western Australia state government.
The group wants the federal government to evaluate the project's potential impact on indigenous heritage, with the aim of ultimately blocking it.
