Technical Assessment of Woodside’s Browse Pygmy Blue Whale Management Plan

To secure their approvals, Woodside had to develop a plan for how they would manage the significant risks to threatened green turtles if the project proceeds. We’ve had two independent scientists provide a technical assessment of Woodside’s management plan for whales and turtles and their findings are gobsmacking.

Woodside’s Browse gas project could make Scott Reef’s unique green turtles extinct.

Woodside’s Browse gas project could delay or prevent the population recovery of the endangered pygmy blue whales that rely on Scott Reef, heightening their extinction risk.

Technical Assessment of Woodside’s Browse Turtle Management Plan

Jackie Chesnutt, who lives outside San Angelo, is tired of pollution from wells she says should have been plugged years ago. Experts say Texas rules allow companies to defer plugging wells for far too long.

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

Reporting for this story was supported by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

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