PERTH, Thursday 6 November 2025 – A Deloitte report leaked to the media, commissioned by the federal government of Western Australia, confirms WA’s fuel exports are fuelling the local weather disaster by delaying Asia’s clear vitality transition, says Greenpeace.
The report’s findings reinforce different impartial evaluation on the worldwide vitality transition, and expose the large local weather and financial threat of the state’s continued enlargement of recent fossil gas tasks.
Greenpeace fuel campaigners in Australia and Southeast Asia say the report firmly challenges the fuel trade’s claims that WA’s fuel exports are serving to nations in Southeast Asia to decarbonise, when it’s truly delaying the renewable vitality transition and fuelling local weather disasters.
Joe Rafalowicz, Head of Local weather and Vitality at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, mentioned:
“This report confirms what consultants have been warning for years: WA’s fuel exports are fuelling the local weather disaster and delaying the roll-out of unpolluted vitality in Asia. The CSIRO concluded the identical factor in a 2019 report Woodside tried to cover.”
“What number of extra studies might be buried earlier than the Authorities of Western Australia accepts the reality: WA fuel is fuelling the local weather disaster, and any claims made by the fuel trade that counsel in any other case are nothing however a smokescreen to wring each greenback out of their stranded fossil gas property.
“Our buying and selling companions want clear, dependable vitality, not costly, polluting fuel — and Western Australia could be the one to offer it, as Greenpeace’s latest modelling clearly exhibits. If we act now, renewable vitality could be our subsequent large success story. We encourage the WA Authorities to simply accept the overwhelming proof and firmly lean into the state’s inexperienced financial future.”
Anchalee Pipattanawattanakul, Marketing campaign Chief at Greenpeace Southeast Asia, mentioned:
“Australia’s rising fuel exports are among the many elements holding again Thailand and the area from transition towards renewable vitality, holding us depending on fossil fuels and worsening the devastating local weather impacts that we’re already experiencing.
“Costly fuel imports from Australia, typically resold by different nations, are a direct driver of our surging electrical energy costs. In 2022, rising fuel imports contributed to a doubling of home fuel costs in Thailand, hitting abnormal folks with record-high energy payments.
“As an alternative of serving to us, this flood of high-priced fuel flowing in from Western Australia is delaying our transition to low-cost, clear vitality and fuelling extra extreme local weather disasters like floods, droughts and excessive warmth. We’d like companions for a renewable future, not polluters who lock us into costly, fossil-fuel dependency, whereas large fuel firms preserve the income.”
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Notes to Editor:
Greenpeace’s report Energy Shift: WA’s Electrified Future, written in collaboration with Springmount Advisory, exhibits for the primary time how Western Australia can turn out to be a world renewable vitality powerhouse by quickly scaling up funding in inexperienced vitality and trade.
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