Government to protest UNESCO concerns for Murujuga rock art in Paris

Safety Warnings Follow Australia’s Woodside Energy to U.S. as $17 Billion LNG Project Moves Ahead

As Woodside Energy investors convened for their annual meeting in Perth, Australia, on May 8, they were met by protests and heckling. Activists, angered over the fossil fuel company’s climate impacts and accidents, repeatedly disrupted speeches by company management. While management and demonstrators debated, Woodside workers about 800 miles to the north were scrambling to stop a major “unplanned discharge” from a company pipeline that was bein…

Government to protest UNESCO concerns for Murujuga rock art in Paris

After UNESCO expressed concern that the extension of Woodside's North West Shelf gas facility would cause nearby Murujuga rock art to be rejected from the World Heritage List, the environment minister will dispatch officials to lobby the agency to reconsider.

Australian Politicians Protest UNESCO Concerns over Ancient Rock Art Near Gas Project

High-ranking politicians in Australia are pushing back against UNESCO’s concerns that ancient rock art in Western Australia is being endangered by the proposed expansion of a nearby gas project, something UNESCO sought to combat by putting these millennia-old works on its World Heritage list. The rock art is located in Murujuga, where there are thought to be 1 million petroglyphs, some dating back as many as 47,000 years. The official website …