Outrage at Woodside’s Northwest Shelf Gas Project’s extension

Newly appointed Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has given the green light to extend Woodside’s Northwest Shelf Gas Project in Western Australia – a decision that’s taken six years to reach with conditional approval.

Plans will see the life of the nation’s largest oil and gas project shift beyond 2030 to 2070 – a move that has prompted major blowback from Indigenous traditional custodians, conservationists, some politicians and academics across the country.

Speaking at a press conference at her office in Brisbane, Leader of the Greens and Senator for Queensland, Larissa Waters, slammed the announcement.

Producers:

• Emma Wotzke
• Zachary Probert

Speakers:

• Piper Rollins - Australian Conservation Foundation Climate Campaigner
• Samantha Hepburn - Professor at the Deakin Law School