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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Graham Readfearn and Donna Lu

Climate and rock art advocates take on Woodside’s ‘carbon bomb’ WA gas project in federal court

Australian Conservation Foundation chief executive Adam Bandt speaks outside the Commonwealth Law Courts in Melbourne on Tuesday 21 July.
Australian Conservation Foundation chief executive Adam Bandt speaks outside court in Melbourne on Tuesday, where the Woodside gas project extension is being challenged. Photograph: Ari Balle-Bowness/Australian Conservation Foundation

The Albanese government’s decision to approve one of the world’s largest gas projects in Western Australia is being challenged in the federal court, setting up a significant test of how Australia’s environment law deals with the climate crisis.

The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and Friends of Australian Rock Art (Fara) are this week running concurrent court challenges against the approval of the extension of Woodside’s major North West Shelf gas export project.

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