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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lisa Cox

Santos angers Tiwi people as it pushes ahead with plans to lay pipeline in Barossa offshore gas project

A coastline in the Northern Territory
Tiwi community members say fossil fuel company Santos has not contacted them about its plans to start laying one of its pipelines for its Barossa offshore gas project off the Northern Territory. Photograph: Rebecca Parker

Tiwi people have expressed anger at a Santos announcement that the company plans to commence laying one of the pipelines for its Barossa offshore gas project, which they say threatens burial grounds and sacred sites.

In its quarterly report, the fossil fuel company said it had notified Australia’s offshore petroleum regulator Nopsema that it had complied with a direction issued earlier this year to survey for underwater cultural heritage sites.

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