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Woodside's floating gas platform arrives off WA coast

A huge 70,000-tonne floating production unit has been towed from China to sit off the West Australian coast for Woodside's $18 billion gas project.

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Morning Mail: cautious welcome for plan to tackle hate speech, seven detained in Sydney operation, England’s Snicko woe

Albanese government’s five-point plan is an essential ‘first step’, groups say; heavily armed officers swoop on two cars to allegedly prevent ‘violent act’

The Guardian - AU

BP opts for culture shock with new CEO appointment, but the timing is odd

The decision to replace Murray Auchincloss with Woodside’s Meg O’Neill is puzzling on at least two counts

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Meg O’Neill: ‘hard-nosed’ outsider who will head BP’s pivot away from green energy

First female appointment to a major oil company has faced fierce resistance from climate activists as boss of Woodside

The Guardian - UK

Woodside Energy’s Meg O’Neill, who criticised ‘zealous’ young climate activists, moves to BP

O’Neill tapped to lead global oil and gas giant, which has broken from net zero strategy and will ramp up fossil fuels

The Guardian - AU

Woodside boss quits to become BP's first female chief

The leader of Australia's biggest oil and gas company has resigned to become the first woman to lead oil giant BP in the company's 116-year history.

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BP names Meg O’Neill as new CEO after incumbent ousted

O’Neill, who has led Woodside Energy since 2021, will be oil and gas company’s first female chief executive

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Embattled BP replaces CEO, naming Woodside Energy chief as first-ever woman leader of a Big Oil giant

BP’s new American CEO is a global traveler who just helped an Australian energy player grow worldwide.

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Woodside Energy’s partnership with Monash University to end after protests by staff and students

Under the deal, Woodside paid Monash University $43m over seven years and company was given naming rights to building on one of the Melbourne campuses

The Guardian - AU

Williams Invests $378 Million In Woodside's LNG Terminal-Pipeline Venture

Australia-based Woodside Energy Group Ltd (NYSE:WDS) solidified its strategy for the Louisiana LNG initiative by closing a deal with U.S. natural gas company Williams Companies Inc (NYSE:WMB).

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Morning Mail: Trump joins world leaders to sign peace deal, CSIRO plans more cuts, Abbott’s history lesson reviewed

Donald Trump given ovation by Knesset before leading Egypt summit; science agency must find more savings as funding declines

The Guardian - AU

Emissions linked to Woodside’s Scarborough gas project could lead to at least 480 deaths, research suggests

Scientists have examined the $16.5bn project’s climate impact and found it could expose more than half a million people to unprecedented heat

The Guardian - AU

The Woodside case proves what we’ve long suspected: Australia’s ‘environment protection’ law does no such thing

Approval of the North West Shelf extension shows the purpose of the EPBC Act is to allow developments, not to protect and preserve

The Guardian - AU

Rock art safeguards weakened despite gas hub's harms

The federal environment minister thinks the North West Shelf gas project is damaging ancient rock art, despite opting for weaker emissions restrictions.

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The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070; Islamophobic hate laid bare; and embracing your lameness

The Albanese government says it has agreed on conditions to protect world heritage-listed rock art near the Woodside plant

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070 with ‘partial’ protection for Indigenous rock art

Approval met with fury from conservation groups and the Greens, who called it a ‘betrayal’ of Australians who want climate action

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'Climate fail': huge gas project approval ignites fury

Australia's biggest gas project will be allowed to operate until 2070, with the approval lighting the fuse for an angry backlash from climate activists.

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Environmentalists target super fund over climate change

Market Forces and other groups say a super fund needs to take a firmer stance against Australian oil and gas companies Woodside and Santos.

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The Guardian - AU

WA museum tells staff ‘almost all of us are guilty’ of burning fossil fuels in email defending Woodside partnership

Exclusive: Climate advocates reject CEO’s claim he is ‘not qualified’ to comment on risks of gas firm’s plan to extend production to 2070

The Guardian - AU

Murray Watt advised by own department to declare protection order over ‘significant Aboriginal area’ in WA

Exclusive: Environment department document states that Burrup peninsula site near Woodside gas plant ‘under threat of injury or desecration’

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Legal challenge against Woodside gas project fails

The battle to stop Woodside expanding its gas production continues with a fresh legal challenge in the Supreme Court, as another fails in the Federal Court.

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Charge dropped for foiled stunt at Woodside boss's home

Prosecutors have a dropped a conspiracy charge against a climate activist accused of involvement in a foiled publicity stunt at the Woodside boss's family home.

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Health stocks leave Australian market out of sorts

After a run of record closes, the Australian stock market has experienced its biggest drop for more than two weeks, weighed down by ailing health stocks.

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Gas plant approval wait 'frustrating': Woodside boss

Woodside has linked slow approvals for projects like the North West Shelf to weak productivity growth as the controversial project faces fresh legal challenge.

The Guardian - AU

WA Museum partnership with Woodside criticised as record-breaking marine heatwave decimates coral reefs

A report found widespread bleaching along a 1,500km stretch of WA coastline is released as fossil fuel giant inks partnership extension

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