Stop Woodside's Browse Drilling

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Woodside wants to drill near the beautiful Scott Reef, threatening a 5 million year-old ecosystem, endangered marine creatures, our climate, and our health.

We need to let the Environment Minister know that the climate impacts of massive fossil fuel projects on our precious environment cannot be ignored. 

Read the Australian Greens submission here →

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Australians won’t see any benefit from Browse, but we will all pay the price for Woodside’s greed. 

Woodside’s Browse Project is about one thing only: making more money for Woodside.

They admit the project only stacks up if Australians hand over the gas for free. That’s why they’re spending millions fighting a minimum 25% tax on gas exports. 

Woodside’s Browse project is a danger to:

  • Scott Reef, where they plan to drill wells alongside a 15 million-year old reef. An ecologically significant marine environment, home to endangered pygmy blue whales and vulnerable green sea turtles. 
  • 40,000-year-old Murujuga rock art, including the oldest known depiction of the human face. Browse is part of Woodside’s Burrup Hub, which risks further damaging the sacred petroglyphs, which are already being corroded by emissions.
  • All of us - polluting gas projects like Browse are causing increased bushfires, floods, cyclones and droughts - pushing up food costs, insurance prices and health risks for everyone. 

And Woodside is buying political influence to greenlight their disastrous gas expansion.

They have donated over $2 million to Labor and the Liberals during the last 10 years. This isn’t charity, it’s an investment. It’s the same reason they sponsor Nippers and the Fremantle Dockers – buying public and political support.

Labor doesn't want to stand up to their big gas donors, so we have to make them. Public opposition to Woodside’s Browse must be undeniable. 

The Minister is inviting public comments until Tuesday, July 21st. Can you add your name to our submission?

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If you would prefer to make your own submission, you can do that on the EPBC Public Portal here and use the guidance information below.

 


 

HOW TO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD

You can sign on to the Australian Greens submission calling for climate impacts from the Browse Gas Project to be considered.

If you sign on, your details (first name, last name initial, and postcode only) will be provided to the Minister for the Environment to show that you say YES to climate considerations, and NO to Browse.

If you would prefer to make your own submission, you can do that on the EPBC Public Portal here and use the guidance information below.

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ALL THE INFO YOU NEED

Background on Woodside's Browse Project
  • Woodside’s Browse Drilling Project is being assessed by the federal Environment Minister, Murray Watt. Currently, he is only required to consider impacts on local endangered species, and not broader climate impacts. 
  • New analysis by Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a global climate expert, shows that gas burnt by Woodside’s Browse project will contribute directly to climate change driving mass bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef. Each mass bleaching event results in the death of nearly 30 million coral colonies. 
  • The Australian Conservation Foundation requested that the Minister consider this significant new evidence and include assessment of Browse’s climate impact on the Great Barrier Reef before deciding whether to approve or reject the project.  
  • The Minister must decide whether to accept this request. If he does, the climate impacts of this carbon bomb cannot be ignored.
What does the new evidence say?
  • Professor Perkins-Kirkpatrick is a coordinating lead author of the IPCC’s 7th assessment report on the physical scientific basis for climate change
  • Using a peer-reviewed methodology, she has shown that the 1.6 billion tonnes of climate pollution produced from Woodside’s proposed gas project will directly impact the Great Barrier Reef, contributing to the death of approximately 29.35 million individual coral colonies in every mass bleaching event.
What's included in the Greens' submission?
  • The Browse Gas Project will have unacceptable impacts on Scott Reef and threatened species, including sea turtles, the dusky sea snake, endangered Pygmy Blue Whales 
  • New evidence from climate expert, Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick directly links climate emissions from Browse to impacts on the Great Barrier Reef.  This substantial new information confirms that the impacts of Browse on nature go far beyond the local environment. 
  • Marine heatwaves caused by burning fossil fuels are driving coral bleaching events that are destroying the iconic Great Barrier Reef ecosystem.  The new information shows that Browse’s emissions will drive marine heatwaves and kill up to 30 millions coral colonies with every mass bleaching event. 
  • It doesn't matter where fossil fuels are drilled or burnt – the outcome is the same. 
  • Distance does not erase responsibility. Woodside’s Browse project is a climate-wrecking carbon bomb that, if released, would have an unacceptable impact on the Great Barrier Reef. 
  • Every new fossil fuel project puts us further away from a safe climate future.
  • We urge the Minister to reconsider how the Browse Project is being assessed to include climate impacts on the Great Barrier Reef.  When climate impacts are considered, it is even clearer that the impacts of the Browse Gas Project are unacceptable.

You can read our full submission here →

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