SYDNEY/PERTH, Thursday 9 January 2025 — In response to Woodside’s referral of its Browse CCS proposal to the federal government for assessment, the following comments can be attributed to Geoff Bice, WA Campaign Lead at Greenpeace Australia Pacific:
“Carbon capture and storage is an expensive distraction that fossil fuel corporations use to greenwash their emissions, so we’re not surprised that Woodside is yet again trying to shirk its climate responsibilities.
“Woodside’s carbon dumping plans for Browse involve injecting the carbon pollution from its offshore gas production into a reservoir underneath the ocean — both environmentally reckless and doomed to fail. It also involves running seismic surveys periodically for over thirty years, which can deafen whales, as well as harm marine life and threatened species.
“Woodside has already tried unsuccessfully to push through carbon dumping plans for Browse and was provisionally knocked back by the federal environment department, who highlighted the risks of the new technology to our oceans and protected animals, as well as the risk of the injection site failing.
“Ultimately, if we are serious about tackling climate pollution and reducing emissions this decade, we must stop emissions before they are produced — CCS is a failed experiment and has not been proven to work at the scale required to tackle the climate crisis anywhere in the world.
“Communities across Australia and the Pacific are experiencing the worsening impacts of the climate crisis. We must invest in the proven climate solutions we have right now — that is renewable wind and solar energy backed by storage.
“Carbon dumping is not the answer to the climate crisis — it is a license for the profit-hungry fossil fuel industry to keep polluting and will simply prolong the use of fossil fuels in our energy systems. It must be called out for the scam that it is.”
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Woodside’s Browse carbon dumping plans an expensive distraction from real climate action
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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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