Cape Fourcroy News Today

Australias oil and gas industry pushes forward with expansion plans despite environmental concerns, legal battles, and clashes with emissions reduction targets.

Esgian's latest market roundup for the fourth week of 2024 brings several updates on new oil discoveries and plans for exploration…

Tiwi Islanders initially raised no objection to tapping the Barossa gasfield or the pipeline linking it to Darwin. Then the green lawyers rolled in with their academics-for-hire, persuaded a hanful of locals to rewrite their creation myths and stopped the project in its tracks. As the Federal Court has found, that campaign was a gigantic and cynical fraud

Scientist Mick OLeary bragged to worried Tiwi Islanders how he had stopped a massive Woodside Energy project by finding ancient proof of Aboriginal songlines - but his claims were a lie.

Climate geoscientist Michael O’Leary wanted to help Indigenous Australians stop a gas pipeline. A judge found he and other outside experts went too far.

The Federal Court has dismissed a Tiwi Islander challenge against Santos' $5 billion gas pipeline in the Timor Sea.

On Monday the Federal Court dismissed the Tiwi Islanders case and awarded costs to Santos.

Federal court has lifted temporary injunction preventing construction work on part of the pipeline route

Adelaide-based Santos will be able to begin work on its $5 billion gas export pipeline in the Timor Sea, apart from near the Tiwi Islands, following a Federal Court decision.

A judge said while there should be further orders restraining work on the pipeline, they shouldn't apply to the entire route.