Taxpayers Face $500 Million Bill to Clean up Chevron’s WA Oil Field

Taxpayers face $500 million bill to clean up Chevron’s WA oil field

Even as new environmental impacts from offshore oil and gas facilities are emerging, also emerging is the full extent of clean-up costs – and who is liable.

Decades-old deal sees taxpayers hit with $500m bill for Chevron clean-up

Government documents reveal WA taxpayers will pay an estimated half a billion dollars to rehabilitate areas of Barrow Island impacted by Chevron's oil and gas project.

State, federal governments to pay towards Chevron clean-up

Decommissioning Chevron’s oilfields on Barrow Island is expected cost more than $2.3 billion, with state and federal governments thought to be on the hook for at least $500 million of the bill.

Oil and gas export rip-off gets worse as Australian governments hand back royalties to Big Gas

Reporting in Boiling Cold confirms the Australian and Western Australian governments will hand back almost half of the royalties collected from the

$500m government bill looms for Chevron oil field cleanup

The $2.3b decommissioning is likely to be part-funded by the Federal and WA governments returning half the royalties received over 60 years.