Woodside plundering #fossilfuels and polluting for profit
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-06/unesco-world-heritage-murujuga-rock-art-meaning/105453930

#Australia #AusPol

#Albanese government minister personally lobbied UNESCO in favour of ignoring #Woodside's destruction of the #Murujuga rock art.

#MurrayWatts, Minister for the Environment.

#CorporateCapture #Burrup

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/murray-watt-personally-lobbied-unesco-over-barring-of-wa-rock-art-from-world-heritage-list

"The Burrup Peninsula,
in WA’s northwest, known as Murujuga to traditional owners, contains the world’s largest and oldest collection of petroglyphs."

"Disrupt Burrup Hub claims Woodside’s operations in the area and its proposed expansion could produce billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2070 and damage the ancient artefacts."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/10/climate-activists-fined-over-protest-outside-woodside-boss-meg-oneills-perth-home-ntwnfb

Murujuga, Rock Art, Heritage, and Landscape Iconoclasm, José Antonio González Zarandona >>
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812251562/murujuga/
#FossilFuels #expansion #ClimateBreakdown #pollution #burrup #Murujuga #petroglyphs #RockArt #Heritage #IndigenousPeoples #iconoclasm #ProtectProtest #disrupt

Fifty-year extension for one of Australia’s biggest CO2 emitters likely after WA ditches emissions-reduction rules

Extending life of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas processing plant on Burrup Peninsula could result in billions of tonnes of climate pollution, critics say

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/11/fifty-year-extension-for-one-of-australias-biggest-co2-emitters-likely-after-wa-ditches-emissions-reduction-rules

Good to to see Former WA Labor Premier Carmen Lawrence say #Burrup's World Heritage nomination 'inconsistent' with heavy industry.

#Murujuga is home to millions of Aboriginal petroglyphs some 40k to 50k old, a significant global heritage site.
Area subject to a federal probe looking into claims emissions from 2 Woodside gas plants and a fertiliser plant are destroying rock art.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-11/criticism-of-government-approving-industry-near-burrup-rock-art/101947892

Western Australia: “While I shared my cultural knowledge and authority as a traditional custodian, a dozen cops kicked down my unlocked door, locked up my dogs and went through my house,” says traditional owner Raelene Cooper whose house was raided by WA police while she was in court giving expert evidence in a trial of 3 climate protestors protesting #Fossilfuel expansion on the Burrup peninsula that contains rock art 60,000 years old.

“The police found nothing and charged me with no crime.”

#suppressionofdissent #intimidation #Burrup #climate
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/04/wa-police-raid-home-of-indigenous-woman-campaigning-to-protect-sacred-rock-art