Australia s Santos Narrabri gas project approval faces court challenge Reuters 23/12/2020 © Reuters/DAVID GRAY A sign for Santos Ltd is displayed on the front of the company s office building in the rural township of Gunnedah, located in north-western New South Wales
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian community group has launched a court challenge against Santos Ltd s A$3.6 billion ($2.7 billion) Narrabri coal seam gas project, saying an independent panel that approved the development failed to consider its climate impacts.
The action was launched by the Environmental Defenders Office, a not-for-profit legal firm, on behalf of a group of 100 residents and farmers from the town of Mullaley, about 110 kilometres (68 miles) south of Narrabri in northern New South Wales (NSW).
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The IPC approved the Santos project in September, imposing 134 environmental conditions, including measures concerning groundwater and the offsetting of greenhouse gas emissions.
But the Mullaley Gas and Pipeline Accord, a group of 100 residents and primary producers from south of Narrabri, said the project should not have been approved due to the effect it would have on the climate crisis.
“I’ve been in the business of growing quality food products all my life and the impacts of climate change are really hitting hard now in Australia,” farmer Scott McCalman said.
The IPC received some 23,000 public submissions when it was assessing the project, most of them opposed to the proposal.
Woodside legal battle casts more doubt on $43b LNG projects
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Woodside Petroleum is facing a drawn-out legal battle over its $43 billion LNG expansion plans with a leading green group claiming the company’s carbon emissions profile has the potential to dwarf that of the Adani coal mine.
The Conservation Council of Western Australia is dragging Woodside and the state s Labor government into the Supreme Court in a bid to overturn environmental approvals for Woodside’s Burrup Hub LNG expansion.
Woodside is on the hunt for a replacement for long-time chief executive Peter Coleman.
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The Conservation Council is alleging there were flaws and shortcuts in approvals for Woodside to process more gas, potentially from the proposed Scarborough and Browse Basin fields, at the company’s existing LNG facilities.
Woodside vows to vigorously defend green group s legal challenge of Burrup hub approvals
Woodside vows to vigorously defend green group s legal challenge of Burrup hub approvals
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The Conservation Council of WA is taking Woodside and Western Australia s environmental regulator to court to overturn changes to Burrup Hub approvals it says contravene the state s Environmental Protection Act.
But Woodside has vowed to defend the recent changes to approvals granted by WA s Environmental Protection Authority last year that allow for Woodside s Karratha and Pluto gas plants in the Pilbara to process gas from the Scarborough and Browse fields.
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