The Latest Breaking News from Woodside

Petroleum tax hike a bandaid budget fix: Woodside boss

Tinkering with the petroleum resource rent tax could cause long-term harm to the gas and oil industries, Woodside chief Meg O'Neill says.

AAP · Apr 19, 2023

Woodside seeks to progress Sunrise gas project

Woodside Energy chief Meg O'Neill says the Sunrise project involving Australia and East Timor is complex but she is committed to getting it done.

AAP · Apr 19, 2023

Woodside could pump safeguard mechanism for gas credits

Gas giant Woodside Energy is being urged to rethink expansion plans or face a carbon emissions bill estimated at more than $60 billion by mid-century.

AAP · Apr 19, 2023

Industrial heavyweights call for urgent action on cutting Australia’s emissions

In joint statement companies say they are ‘ready to seize opportunity’ of decarbonisation and call on others to join them

The Guardian - AU · Apr 3, 2023

Plan to reduce emissions will have unintended consequences on agriculture, farmers say

Farmers are raising concerns the federal government's plan to reduce the emissions of big polluters would rely too heavily on carbon credits from agriculture.

ABC News · Mar 18, 2023

Funds accused of 'greenwashing' by market lobby group

The environment-focussed lobby group Market Forces has criticised five super funds for not doing enough to challenge the fossil fuel firms they invest in.

AAP · Mar 14, 2023

Angry shareholders target Woodside directors over climate change

Institutional shareholders angry at Woodside Energy's approach to climate change will take their fight to its board for the first time.

The New Daily · Mar 14, 2023

Call for Woodside directors' heads over climate change

Woodside Energy's board is failing shareholders on climate change and three directors up for re-election should pay the price, activist shareholders say.

AAP · Mar 14, 2023

Alan Kohler: To defeat climate change, Australia must do the impossible

The climate argument between Labor and The Greens is as strange as the carbon-reduction target being impossible to meet.

The New Daily · Mar 5, 2023

WA's slow renewable energy transition raises doubts about whether coal power stations can close by 2029

New data shows the state received just 5 per cent of the renewable energy capacity that companies committed to last year, raising concerns about whether coal-fired power stations will be able to close at the end of the decade.

ABC News · Mar 4, 2023