Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070 with ‘partial’ protection for Indigenous rock art

<p>Environment minister Murray Watt says he’s confident new conditions imposed on the North West Shelf gas project extension will ‘protect jobs … and protect the rock art’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/sep/12/anthony-albanese-pacific-islands-forum-woodside-north-west-shelf-decision-sussan-ley-labor-coalition-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>The Albanese government has approved an extension to 2070 of one of the world’s biggest gas export projects, saying it has agreed on conditions to protect more than one million pieces of ancient World Heritage-listed Indigenous rock art that sit near by.</p><p>Climate campaigners have described Woodside’s North West Shelf extension as a “carbon bomb” incompatible with global climate goals. The approval was met with fury from conservation groups and the Greens on Friday, who said it was a “betrayal” of Australians who wanted climate action.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/12/north-west-shelf-gas-project-extended-to-2070-with-partial-protection-for-indigenous-rock-art">Continue reading...</a>

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