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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Adam Morton Climate and environment editor

Woodside LNG: Australia’s ‘biggest’ contribution to climate crisis a step closer to 50-year extension

An aerial perspective of the Burrup Peninsula with the Woodside-operated North West Shelf Karratha Gas Plant in the foreground and the Burrup Park LNG plant in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
More than 750 organisations and individuals lodged objects to an extension to Woodside’s operating license on its North West Shelf project. Photograph: Krystle Wright/The Guardian

One of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel developments is a step closer to having its life extended for nearly 50 years after Western Australian officials dismissed appeals arguing it should be stopped on climate science and cultural grounds.

More than 750 organisations and individuals last year lodged objections to a WA Environment Protection Authority (EPA) recommendation that oil and gas company Woodside be allowed to operate its gas processing facility in the Pilbara until 2070.

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