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.
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Produced By: Emma Wotzke, and Zachary Probert
Featured In Story: Larissa Waters – Australian Greens Leader, Piper Rollins – Australian Conservation Foundation Climate Campaigner, and Samantha Hepburn – Professor at the Deakin Law School
First aired on The Wire, Friday 30 May 2025