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Woodside’s Temporary Profit High Underscored By Mounting Climate Risk
Gas company Woodside’s temporary profit high is underscored by mounting climate risk, as environmental and market pressure grows around the company’s controversial Burrup Hub gas project, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Woodside posted first-half profits of $1.64 billion today but Greenpeace Australia Pacific Head of Clean Transitions Jess Panegyres warned investors that Woodside’s financial spike is…
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What is the North West Shelf – and why does it matter?
Community and legal opposition to the Burrup Hub is surging. You might have heard us celebrating a record number of appeals lodged last month against Woodside’s North West Shelf extension to 2070. So what does it all mean, and why does it matter?
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Our fight for safe, healthy oceans continues #IGC5
The fate of our oceans is being decided this month at the United Nations. Countries are meeting to finalise a new Global Ocean Treaty. A strong Treaty will make it possible to create vast ocean sanctuaries on the high seas. This is a vital step on the road to 30×30, 30% of the oceans protected…
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Woodside’s Pluto 2 LNG Train Can Still Come Off The Rails
Woodside has broken ground on a second LNG train at its Pluto gas processing facility on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia but the company’s plans are far from on track, with Woodside facing two legal challenges and still lacking crucial environmental approvals, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. Pluto Train 2 will be the second train…
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What is a Fuel Efficiency Standard (FES)?
A fuel efficiency standard is the first step to opening up the Australian market to more EVs and ensuring that demand for them can be met. A fuel efficiency standard is the first step to opening up the Australian market to more EVs and ensuring that demand for them can be met. Fuel efficiency standards…
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Bowen Shifts Australia’s EV Transition Into Gear And Now We Need To Hit The Accelerator
Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen’s announcement today committing to developing Australia’s first National Electric Vehicle Strategy has been welcomed by Greenpeace Australia Pacific as a plan to get Australia’s clean transport transition out of the slow lane - and acceleration is needed. Minister Bowen made the announcement at the landmark National EV Summit…
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AGL’s Lame Duck Leadership Must Go As Dead Weight Of Coal Sees Profits Plunge
SYDNEY, Aug 19 2022 - The failed leadership team at troubled energy company AGL must expedite their exit and step away from the strategic review currently underway, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. This morning AGL reported that its annual profit had sunk by 58 per cent to $225 million, the composition of the board remains unchanged…
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Greenpeace Activists In Germany Protest Troubled Uniper Over Woodside Gas Support
Overnight Greenpeace activists in Dusseldorf protested against German energy giant Uniper’s plans to buy gas from Woodside Energy’s controversial Scarborough project in Western Australia. The protest, which saw activists playing recordings of whale songs and holding up signs reading “UNIPER: Choose whales not Woodside!”, took place on the day Uniper published its interim report detailing…
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“No New Gas”: Greenpeace Activists In Germany Block Pipeline Shipments Bound For Woodside’s Destructive WA Gas Project
Greenpeace activists at the German port of Brake have blocked a ship carrying pipelines slated to be delivered to Western Australia for use in Woodside Energy’s Scarborough offshore gas project and painted the words “no new gas” on the side of the vessel. Around 20 activists blocked the freighter Emma Oldendorff, which was carrying pipes…
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