The ‘Carbon Bomb’ Awaiting Australia‘s New Environment Minister

The ‘carbon bomb’ awaiting Australia‘s new environment minister

Australia has a new environment minister – and he has a big job ahead of him: fixing the country’s broken environment laws. Murray Watt has replaced Tanya Plibersek, whose efforts at reform were famously thwarted by the prime minister. But before Watt can begin that task, he faces another critical decision: whether to let Woodside Energy extend its North West Shelf gas project

Reliable energy or ‘carbon bomb’? What’s at stake in the battle over Australia’s North West Shelf

… “nationally significant asset” that pioneered Australia’s multibillion-dollar LNG industry … Japan and South Korea that lack their own energy resources and need Australian … over whether Japanese companies are buying more LNG from Australia than they …