Oil and gas giant Woodside Petroleum has applied for environmental approval to build one of Australia’s biggest-emitting industrial developments – a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant 425km north of Broome – without a plan to reduce or offset its greenhouse gas pollution.
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| The Browse LNG project would involve pumping gas 900km from offshore reservoirs. |
Documents submitted to the federal government for the long-mooted $28bn Browse LNG project show the offshore part of the development alone is expected to emit up to 200m tonnes of carbon dioxide over 50 years, peaking at 7m tonnes a year.
The total pollution from the Browse development could be significantly higher once processing the gas for export – usually the most emissions-intensive part of LNG projects – at an existing plant at Karratha is factored in, though Woodside has flagged it is considering running that plant on renewable energy.
Read the story from The Guardian by Adam Morton - “Woodside applies to build big-polluting LNG plant – with no emissions plan.”
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