#northwestshelf — Public Fediverse posts
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#Albanese faces tough talks on #climate action at the #PacificIslandsForum in #SolomonIslands today – & they will be even tougher if his #environment minister, #MurrayWatt, gives the final go-ahead today for #Woodside to extend the life of its #NorthWestShelf #gasproject as has been suggested by reports this week. #auspol #ClimateCrisis
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#Greens leader #LarissaWaters, says the #environment minister, #MurrayWatt, should rescind his provisional approval of #Woodside’s #NorthWestShelf extension to give the nearby ancient #Murujuga #rockart a better chance of gaining world heritage status.
“We want to see this global treasure listed as #worldheritage. What we don’t want is to see it destroyed by acidic emissions from Woodside.” #auspol
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BREAKING: Petrina's Emergency Defence trial begins at Perth Magistrates Court.
Petrina pled not guilty after blocking the road leading into Woodside's Burrup Hub with a boat in 2024, on the grounds that her actions were in proportion to the emergency created by Woodside's emissions.
Her trial begins today, which could serve to achieve climate protest rights in Western Australia.
Outside court this morning, Petrina said:
"Woodside's emissions are directly putting us in danger, destroying climate and culture, and we should have the right to stop it.
We only have people power, so that's why I'm here on trial today."
Support Petrina by staying tuned as her trial plays out, and donating to Disrupt Burrup Hub for legal costs.
Link in bio or via our website disruptburruphub.com
#protest #climatecrisis #disruptburruphub #woodside #westernaustralia
Climate activist, @disrupt_burrup_hub campaigner and @socialistallianceoz member Petrina Harley outside the Perth Magistrates Court this morning ahead of her landmark trial to fight charges after courageously blocking the one road leading in and out of the Woodside’s Burrup Hub last year.
Petrina will plead the emergency defence before Perth Magistrates Court, and if found not guilty will secure the legal right to climate protest in Western Australia.
Disrupt Burrup Hub said: “The emergency defence argues that a person who broke the law did so in proportion to a legitimate emergency.
“In this case the emergency is clear: the climate crisis is here, and Woodside’s Burrup Hub —the biggest fossil fuel project in the Southern Hemisphere — IS contributing to climate-related deaths with no end in sight.”
#disruptburruphub #climateaction #woodside #northwestshelf #greenleft
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I caught up with Australia at #UNOC3 #Oceans conference overnight. Australia's Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has been busy talking a big game on ocean conservation. But there is an essential hypocrisy here with approval of #NorthWestShelf #FossilFuels Climate 💣.
#ClimateCrisis #SaveScottReefhttps://takvera.blogspot.com/2025/06/un-oceans-conference-australia-commits.html
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Here we are yesterday outside Labor MP Peter Khalil’s office in Coburg on the 2nd week of a Tuesday vigil to phase out Fossil Fuels. Keep tooting people. We look forward to when we can just enjoy the local Dog parks rather than sit outside an MP office every week. Labor says they do climate action while approving new coal and gas like North West Shelf extension that will cause 4.3 billion tonnes of climate pollution. That is a climate 💣
#ChihuahuasforClimateAction
#Nonewgas
#SaveScottReef
#dogsofmastodon
#chihuahua
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Here we are yesterday outside Labor MP Peter Khalil’s office in Coburg on the 2nd week of a Tuesday vigil to phase out Fossil Fuels. Keep tooting people. We look forward to when we can just enjoy the local Dog parks rather than sit outside an MP office every week. Labor says they do climate action while approving new coal and gas like North West Shelf extension that will cause 4.3 billion tonnes of climate pollution. That is a climate 💣
#ChihuahuasforClimateAction
#Nonewgas
#SaveScottReef
#dogsofmastodon
#chihuahua
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Here we are yesterday outside Labor MP Peter Khalil’s office in Coburg on the 2nd week of a Tuesday vigil to phase out Fossil Fuels. Keep tooting people. We look forward to when we can just enjoy the local Dog parks rather than sit outside an MP office every week. Labor says they do climate action while approving new coal and gas like North West Shelf extension that will cause 4.3 billion tonnes of climate pollution. That is a climate 💣
#ChihuahuasforClimateAction
#Nonewgas
#SaveScottReef
#dogsofmastodon
#chihuahua
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Here we are yesterday outside Labor MP Peter Khalil’s office in Coburg on the 2nd week of a Tuesday vigil to phase out Fossil Fuels. Keep tooting people. We look forward to when we can just enjoy the local Dog parks rather than sit outside an MP office every week. Labor says they do climate action while approving new coal and gas like North West Shelf extension that will cause 4.3 billion tonnes of climate pollution. That is a climate 💣
#ChihuahuasforClimateAction
#Nonewgas
#SaveScottReef
#dogsofmastodon
#chihuahua
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Here we are yesterday outside Labor MP Peter Khalil’s office in Coburg on the 2nd week of a Tuesday vigil to phase out Fossil Fuels. Keep tooting people. We look forward to when we can just enjoy the local Dog parks rather than sit outside an MP office every week. Labor says they do climate action while approving new coal and gas like North West Shelf extension that will cause 4.3 billion tonnes of climate pollution. That is a climate 💣
#ChihuahuasforClimateAction
#Nonewgas
#SaveScottReef
#dogsofmastodon
#chihuahua
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Massive #coralbleaching along Australia’s north west coast due to #MarineHeatwave. This is what 1.5C of warming looks like. It will get worse. Meanwhile, last week Woodside’s #NorthwestShelf carbon bomb approved by Labor’s Murray Watt. #ClimateCrisis #Ningaloo #ScottReef
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/07/wa-coral-unprecedented-bleaching-event-ningaloo-reef -
@MelissaBenyon Yes, without key pieces of context for that very misleading final quote:
“This [North West Shelf] project is subject to those reforms, which means this plant is required to bring their emissions down each year and reach net zero by 2050 under the safeguard mechanism.”
Context: by "their emissions", the (unnamed) government spokesperson does *not* include the >4b tonnes of CO2 emissions that will result when the gas extracted from the project is burned (called 'scope 3 emissions' in technical jargon), and is only referring the (far smaller) emissions that result from the extraction process itself. However, most readers of the article are unlikely to be aware of this crucial distinction and so miss the verbal sleight of hand at play.
Also missing: even these latter emissions are very likely underestimated by current Australian government methods of accounting for gas extraction, which are not based on the latest research into the scale of methane leakage that occurs during extraction, processing and transport of #FossilGas.
Also also missing: the safeguard mechanism allows #Woodside to 'reduce' 'their emissions' via dodgy #CarbonOffset scams that frequently fail to do anything like what is claimed on the tin.
#Auspol #ClimateJournalism #NorthWestShelf #DirtyEnergy -
Okay some tough climbs tonight. Our #FRATL 1.18am please Anna @Sophoife #couchpeloton
We crossed Merri Creek to do some protesting today in Preston, against the Labor approval of North West Shelf Gas extension to 2070.
We stand with former Labor WA Premier Carmen Lawrence, that this approval is a betrayal of us all on climate action.#DogsofMastodon
#Tourdog x 2
#ChihuahuasforClimateAction
#ClimateCrisis
#NonewGas
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This week, the freshly re-elected #Albanese Labor government scandalously approved a forty-year extension on the operational life of the gas hub, a move that not only threatens the priceless petroglyphs, but represents permission for #Woodside (the massive gas company that basically runs the state of Western Australia) to profit off a #CarbonBomb that will, once extracted and burned, add somewhere between four and six billion tonnes of climate-wrecking ocean-acidifying carbon dioxide to the active carbon cycle. The cumulative climate pollution from the life of this one project will thus considerably exceed the sum of Australia's projected national domestic emissions for the next decade or more.
Of all the legacies of this Labor government, this decision (alongside giving the green light to dozens more coal and gas projects) will ultimately be the most impactful. The carbon released for the short-term profits of a wealthy few will contribute to massively disrupting and degrading the habitability of the planet for everyone, continuing to shape life on Earth for at least the next forty thousand years.
/web/20250529055300/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/28/approval-of-woodside-lng-project-gambles-with-ancient-heritage-for-short-term-gain
#Auspol #FossilFuelIndustry #DirtyEnergy #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #FossilGas #Murujuga #BurrupHub #NorthWestShelf #Woodside #ALP 2/2
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Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) on the western coast of the Australian continent is home to the world's largest collection of paleolithic petroglyphs (rock carvings), an ancient art gallery containing around one million images carved into the rocks, some dated to at least 45,000 years old. Many of the images depict Australia's distinctive fauna, including extinct creatures like the thylacine, as well as the oldest known representation of a human face. The rocks are themselves noteworthy as coming from some of the oldest igneous bedrock in the world (around 2.7 billion years old). And the region is home to five #Aboriginal nations who are the inheritors of fifty thousand years of continuous human occupation and culture.
The place is an obvious candidate for #UNESCO World Heritage protection.
However...
The Burrup peninsula is also the location of the #NorthWestShelf gas hub, a massive piece of #DirtyEnergy infrastructure that has played a significant role in placing Australia at or near the top globally of liquefied natural gas exporters. #LNG
Over the last forty or fifty years gas industry activity on the peninsula has measurably degraded the artworks, which have survived intact for forty or fifty thousand years.
#Auspol #FossilfFuelIndusrty #CulturalHeritage #Aboriginal1/2
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#Albo defends #NorthWestShelf #gas extension to 2070, as critics warn about net zero commitment.
#Environment Minister #MurrayWatt gave provisional #approval for Woodside's North West Shelf to operate for another 40 years, extending its environmental approval beyond the previous end date of 2030.
It has prompted a furious reaction from #environmentalgroups who say it will lead to higher emissions and threaten #Australia's #climate commitments. #auspol
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The mining company #FortescueMetals – owned by the billionaire #AndrewForrest, who says he aims to meet “real zero” carbon emissions – has sharply #criticised the #Albanese government’s approval of a 40-year life extension for the #NorthWestShelf #gas processing facility.
The company’s chief executive, #DinoOtranto, said the idea that #Australia could lock in #fossilfuel projects until 2070 while still claiming progress toward #netzero was “concerning”. #auspol