SYDNEY, Monday 11 Could 2026 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has branded Woodside’s Browse gasoline report launched to media at present as being “so ludicrous it reads like satire” and a harmful distraction from the pressing motion wanted to avoid wasting Scott Reef and deal with hovering emissions.
The report states Woodside’s Browse offshore gasoline drilling venture at Scott Reef would don’t have any impression on Western Australia’s web zero targets, because the state was on monitor to overlook them anyway.
Hannah Schuch, Senior Campaigner at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, mentioned: “Woodside’s report is so ludicrous it reads like satire. It’s nothing however the self-serving tosh anticipated from a multinational gasoline company exploiting the worldwide vitality disaster to drill for dearer, risky and polluting gasoline to export for revenue.
“Claiming an enormous carbon bomb would by some means assist the web zero transition is delusional. If Woodside’s reckless Browse gasoline venture went forward, it will be one of the crucial polluting initiatives within the nation and switch certainly one of Australia’s final pristine oceanic reef methods, Scott Reef, into an industrial gasoline zone.
“The WA EPA already made an preliminary discovering that Woodside’s plan to drill a minimum of 50 wells close to Scott Reef, dwelling to nesting sea turtles, endangered pygmy blue whales and different endangered species, posed unacceptable dangers to the setting.
“Most just lately, impartial scientific consultants demonstrated that Woodside’s amended plans do nothing for the survival of those key threatened species discovered at Scott Reef however simply tinker across the edges. For Woodside to flaunt these plans as a win for web zero, is flabbergasting and admittedly insulting.
“Woodside repeatedly fails to ship gasoline to West Australians. In line with the DomGas Alliance lower than 4% of gasoline from Woodside’s Pluto facility has been provided to the native market — far in need of the 15% requirement.
“The worldwide vitality disaster has laid naked the risks of fossil gas dependence. WA has entry to world-class renewable vitality assets, which modelling reveals might energy the state’s properties, hospitals and key industries with clear, low cost and reasonably priced vitality. WA has a alternative: displace gasoline with renewables, or displace renewables with gasoline.
“Surroundings Minister Murray Watt has a accountability to guard the setting and put an finish to this harmful venture as soon as and for all. Minister Watt and the Albanese authorities’s environmental credentials journey on defending Scott Reef from Woodside’s soiled gasoline for good.
“Greenpeace is asking for Murray Watt to hearken to the half 1,000,000 Australians which have requested him to cease this nature and climate-wrecking venture and shield Scott Reef for generations to come back.”
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