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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lisa Cox

Santos’s $5.8bn Barossa gas pipeline project can go ahead after Tiwi Islanders lose court battle

The court dismissed a claim the Barossa export pipeline, which runs within seven kilometres of Cape Fourcroy on Bathurst Island, would risk underwater Indigenous heritage sites.
The court dismissed a claim the Barossa export pipeline, which runs within seven kilometres of Cape Fourcroy on Bathurst Island, would risk underwater Indigenous heritage sites. Photograph: Rebecca Parker

Santos’s $5.8bn Barossa offshore gas project has taken another step forward after the federal court dismissed a legal challenge by a group of Tiwi Islanders to the construction of a pipeline.

In a decision on Monday, Justice Natalie Charlesworth dismissed the legal action and lifted a temporary injunction that had prevented Santos from beginning construction work in an area on the pipeline route.

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