Good science to protect Burrup artworks are essential for a World Heritage bid, and after 15 years of contested science, high hopes greeted this new program.
WA cuts loose Burrup rock art monitors for breaching $7 million contract
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A company awarded $7 million to monitor industrial emissions on 47,000-year-old rock art in Western Australia’s north has been dismissed for breach of contract.
Murujuga (the Dampier Archipelago, including the Burrup Peninsula), near the mining town of Karratha in the state’s Pilbara region, is home to the world’s largest, densest and most diverse Aboriginal rock art gallery – more than 1 million images across 37 hectares.
On Murujuga’s Burrup Peninsula, rock art and industry are a little too close for comfort.
Good science to protect Burrup artworks are essential for a World Heritage bid, and after 15 years of contested science, high hopes greeted this new program.
WAâs environment and climate action minister, Amber-Jade Sanderson, said its approval required emissions from Pluto LNG to be reduced by 30% by 2030 and to reach net zero by 2050.
Climate campaigners said this wording masked that emissions from Pluto would increase by about 60% this decade as its production expanded with the addition of a second LNG train. The 30% cut is relative to a 2007 estimate of what the emissions from a production facility of this size would have been.
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