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Environment minister Murray Watt is due to make a decision on whether to extend the controversial North West Shelf development in coming daysWant to get this in your inbox when it publishes? Sign up for the Clear Air Australia newsletter hereReliable energy or ‘carbon bomb’? What’s at stake in the battle over Australia’s North West ShelfUnless something remarkable – the federal court, perhaps – intervenes, the Albanese government will this week make a decision that could have ramifications for greenhouse gas emissions and Indigenous heritage that last for decades – or longer. It relates to the future of the North West Shelf, one of the world’s largest liquified natural gas (LNG) projects.Most discussion about it assumes that it is a done deal – that the environment minister, Murray Watt, will give the green light to an application by Woodside Energy to extend the life of the gas export processing facility on the Burrup peninsula in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

Environment minister Murray Watt is due to make a decision on whether to extend the controversial North West Shelf development in coming days
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Reliable energy or ‘carbon bomb’? What’s at stake in the battle over Australia’s North West Shelf
Unless something remarkable – the federal court, perhaps – intervenes, the Albanese government will this week make a decision that could have ramifications for greenhouse gas emissions and Indigenous heritage that last for decades – or longer. It relates to the future of the North West Shelf, one of the world’s largest liquified natural gas (LNG) projects.
Most discussion about it assumes that it is a done deal – that the environment minister, Murray Watt, will give the green light to an application by Woodside Energy to extend the life of the gas export processing facility on the Burrup peninsula in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...