SYDNEY, Monday 11 Could 2026 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has branded Woodside’s Browse gasoline report launched to media in the present day as being “so ludicrous it reads like satire” and a harmful distraction from the pressing motion wanted to avoid wasting Scott Reef and handle hovering emissions.
The report states Woodside’s Browse offshore gasoline drilling challenge at Scott Reef would haven’t any affect 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 costlier, unstable and polluting gasoline to export for revenue.
“Claiming a large carbon bomb would someway assist the online zero transition is delusional. If Woodside’s reckless Browse gasoline challenge went forward, it will be one of the crucial polluting tasks within the nation and switch one in every 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 at the least 50 wells close to Scott Reef, house to nesting sea turtles, endangered pygmy blue whales and different endangered species, posed unacceptable dangers to the atmosphere.
“Most lately, unbiased 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 albeit insulting.
“Woodside constantly fails to ship gasoline to West Australians. In accordance 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 hazards of fossil gasoline dependence. WA has entry to world-class renewable vitality sources, which modelling reveals may energy the state’s houses, 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 atmosphere and put an finish to this harmful challenge 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 take heed to the half 1,000,000 Australians which have requested him to cease this nature and climate-wrecking challenge and defend Scott Reef for generations to return.”
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