SYDNEY, Tuesday 28 January 2025 — Interested media are advised of the annual results announcements by some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies for 2024, which was confirmed to be the hottest on record. This includes Australian-based gas giant Woodside.
As LA continues to burn and extreme weather events impact regions across the world, Greenpeace spokespeople in Australia and globally are available to discuss the role of oil and gas majors in fuelling climate chaos. Spokespeople can also present Greenpeace’s demand that governments worldwide introduce equitably designed taxes and fines to reclaim money from the industry to pay for the spiralling costs of extreme weather events.
Annual profit announcements will be made in the coming weeks:
- Shell: 30 January
- ExxonMobil: 31 January
- Chevron: 31 January
- TotalEnergies: 5 February
- Equinor: 5 February
- BP: 6 February
- Woodside: 25 February
Solaye Snider, Climate and Energy campaigner at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said: “Off the back of the hottest year on record, Woodside will soon announce its annual profits from extracting and exporting fossil fuels. Right now, much of Australia is gripped by an extreme heatwave stretching from Perth to Brisbane, with sweltering temperatures, wild storms and flash flooding battering communities across the country.
“In the midst of a cost of living crisis, it’s not right that fossil fuel executives are taking home million dollar pay cheques while fuelling climate destruction across the globe. Everyday Australians should not be footing the bill for climate-fuelled disasters, while fossil fuel corporations like Woodside and Santos continue to profit. Big polluters should pay for the damage their reckless pursuit of profit is causing to communities and the environment across the world.”
Ian Duff, Co-Head of Greenpeace International’s Stop Drilling Start Paying campaign, said: “The annual profits of oil and gas companies are driving our losses. While their earnings go from extremely high to very high, their pollution remains at record levels. Ordinary people can no longer foot the bill for the greed of dirty energy companies or bear the costs for loss and damage which are fuelled by Big Oil’s emissions. Governments must stand with the people – not the oil and gas lobby – and finally enforce the Polluters Pay principle.”
The Greenpeace Stop Drilling Start Paying global campaign is working with millions of people to stop oil and gas companies from expanding, resist their intimidation, and ensure they pay for climate damages already felt by people across the world. greenpeace.org.au/act/make-polluters-pay
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For more information or interviews contact Kate O’Callaghan on 0406 231 892 or kate.ocallaghan@greenpeace.org
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Sydney, Thursday 19 March 2026 — In response to escalating attacks on gas fields in the Middle East, including Israeli strikes on Iran’s giant South Pars gas field and Iranian retaliations on gas fields in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the following lines can be attributed to Solaye Snider, Campaigner at Greenpeace Australia Pacific:
“The targeting of gas fields across the Middle East is a perilous escalation that reinforces just how vulnerable our fossil-fuelled world really is.
“Oil and gas have long been used as tools of power and coercion by authoritarian regimes. They cause climate chaos and environmental pollution and they drive conflict and war. The energy security of every nation still hooked on gas, including Australia, is under direct threat.
“For countries that are reliant on gas imports, like Sri Lanka, Pakistan and South Korea, this crisis is just getting started. It can take months to restart a gas export facility once it is shut down, meaning the shockwaves of these strikes will be felt for a long time to come.
“It is a gross and tragic injustice that while civilians are killed and lose their homes to this escalating violence, and families struggle with a tightening cost-of-living, gas giants like Woodside and Santos have seen their share prices surge on the prospect of windfall war profits.
“We must break this cycle. Transitioning to local renewable energy is the way to protect Australian households from the inherent volatility of fossil fuels like gas.”
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Media contact: Lucy Keller on 0491 135 308 or lkeller@greenpeace.org
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