Environment minister Murray Watt says he’s confident new conditions imposed on the North West Shelf gas project extension will ‘protect jobs … and protect the rock art’ The Albanese government has approved an extension to 2070 of one of the world’s biggest gas export projects, saying it has agreed conditions to protect more than a million pieces of ancient World Heritage-listed Indigenous rock art that sit next door. Climate campaigners have described Woodside’s North West Shelf extension as a “carbon bomb” that was incompatible with global climate goals. Continue reading...

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