NewsBite

Environmental protection

Advertisement
More than 1 million petroglyphs are scattered around Murujuga National Park, which overlooks Woodside’s Karratha operations.

Art activists in legal bid to kill massive Woodside gas project

The gas giant’s controversial project faces another hurdle as environmental activists launch an 11th-hour bid to overturn a state government approval.

  • Aaron Bunch and Emma Young

Latest

Kassel Germany Billboards and other materials protesting K+S saltworks proposal for Exmouth Gulf region

German industrial giant dumps Exmouth Gulf project after fierce fight

For many years, the West Australian community has battled against the industrialisation of the area known as Ningaloo’s nursery. They’re now celebrating a “major win”.

  • Emma Young
North West Shelf protesters outside Perth MP Patrick Gorman’s office on Friday morning.

Woodside secures extension to respond to North West Shelf conditions

The government had set conditions understood to be around the potential impact on ancient nearby Aboriginal rock art. Woodside had until Friday to respond.

  • Hamish Hastie
Scott Reef is near the site of Woodside’s Browse plans.

Woodside’s key Browse oil spill-stopping tech dismissed by fellow LNG giant

Chevron said the technology had not yet been deployed in Australia and had only been deployed “a limited number of times internationally for subsea applications”.

  • Hamish Hastie
Environment Minister Murray Watt with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Environmentalists say our green goals don’t protect nature or work for business. Here’s how Labor plans to fix the problem

A federal environment protection agency is back on the agenda as a controversial gas project approval brings focus to the government’s long list of overdue environmental reforms.

  • Mike Foley
Gulliver’s gas wells on the shores of King Sound.

Moving on before cleaning up: Gas wells spark fears for the Kimberley

Dangerous and damaged oil and gas infrastructure has been left in WA’s north. Now the government must hope a Chinese holding company pays for the clean-up.

  • Emma Young
Advertisement
The 2022 breakthrough has widened in the three years since ex-tropical cyclone Seth ripped it open.

Bribie Island report blames human activity for accelerating erosion

As the island continues to fragment, the first stage of a report has found human activity has sped up the natural reshaping of the coast.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
University of Sydney professor Stuart Khan says the results of the ABS survey on PFAS are “shocking but not surprising”.

‘Forever chemicals’ found in blood of 97 per cent of Victorians

Synthetic chemicals called PFAS have been detected in the blood of almost all Australians, in growing concentrations with age. The health impacts are unknown.

  • Adam Carey
Traditional owner Raelene Cooper with a hand petroglyph on the Burrup Peninsula.

Burrup Peninsula industrial pollution has impacted Murujuga rock art: report

As the nation’s eyes are on the federal minister set to decide whether to allow Woodside’s expansion on the site, a long awaited air pollution report has dropped.

  • Emma Young
People gathered from all across Perth and the South West for the protest against Heidelberg Materials’ proposed Oldbury sand mine.

Black cockatoo battle erupts south of Perth as sand mine looms

A fight is brewing in a rural southern Perth suburb over a proposal to clear hectares of banksia woodland, potentially impacting a species already on the brink.

  • Emma Young

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/environmental-protection-1m42