For the first time in eight years, the highly controversial WA Browse gas project is open to public comment after Environment Minister Murray Watt accepted ACF’s reconsideration request as valid.
While this is an administrative step, it is an important one for those campaigning to stop the highly destructive project from getting approval and spewing 1.6 billion tonnes of climate pollution into the atmosphere.
“New evidence ACF put before the Minister shows the climate pollution from Woodside’s Browse climate bomb would have unacceptable impacts on places of national significance like the Great Barrier Reef,” ACF CEO Adam Bandt said.
“Those scientific-based impacts simply can’t be ignored and should form part of Minister Watt’s decision on the Browse Gas Project.
“The decision to accept the reconsideration request as valid is critical, enabling public comment on Woodside’s controversial Browse Gas Project for the first time in eight years at a federal level.
“ACF will encourage its 600,000-strong supporter base to now have its say on the looming climate bomb, with submissions open for 20 days,” Mr Bandt said.
