The Juice Media staff are again, this time with a video tackling the controversial Burrup Hub oil/fuel challenge in Western Australia. Humorous, disturbing, brutal and undoubtedly NSFW.
What Is The Burrup Hub?
In response to Power Info Australia, which claims to supply “factual, evidence-based details about Australia’s oil and fuel exploration and manufacturing business”1, Burrup Hub is a bunch of initiatives to increase the lifetime of present Woodside-operated amenities on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia, and can create new vitality sources.
The “reality sheet” is fairly mild on info. It mentions bringing fuel from the Scarborough and Browse fields to amenities on the mainland, growth of Pluto LNG and a few different components.
The doc claims Burrup Hub will present a median of 4,000 jobs per yr over a 40-year interval, and naturally there’s efficient session with neighborhood, Conventional House owners and different stakeholders claimed to be occurring.
Australia’s Most Polluting Mission Ever?
The doc additionally mentions the usage of “environment friendly options and renewable applied sciences to restrict emissions.”
Simply on these emissions – in 2020, the Conservation Council of Western Australia launched a report claiming Burrup Hub would have a complete carbon equal footprint of round 6 *billion* tonnes over its 50-year life.
In that report, the CCWA additionally claimed Burrup Hub would:
- Be essentially the most polluting challenge ever to be developed in Australia.
- Be in direct breach of Australia’s commitments on local weather change.
- See greater than 50 wells drilled to extract oil and fuel from beneath the pristine Scott Reef off the Kimberley coast.
- Danger well being impacts for native communities and staff.
- Trigger everlasting injury to the world’s most in depth assortment of Aboriginal rock artwork.
- Open up Western Australia to a big scale fracking and onshore fuel business.
- Ship few advantages, whereas transferring billions of {dollars} of prices to West Australians.
The complete CCWA report could be accessed right here.
Burrup Hub Standing
If you happen to haven’t heard a lot about Burrup Hub lately, that’s in all probability by design. Use of the time period “Burrup Hub” was reportedly dropped by Woodside final yr.
“Since then, Woodside has most well-liked to interrupt up the bigger challenge into chunks when talking to the general public, with out making clear that these items are interlinked,” says local weather justice activist Gerard Mazza. “It’s tried to keep away from scrutiny of its plans which, when thought-about collectively, would make Australia’s meagre local weather targets troublesome to fulfill and threaten the Murujuga rock artwork by chemical emissions.”
Again in July, the WA EPA accepted an extension of Woodside’s interconnected North West Shelf / Karratha Gasoline Plant, together with the Browse Basin fuel fields, till 2070. Development commenced in September on Woodside’s Pluto/Scarborough challenge and the adjoining Perdaman fertiliser plant to be fed by Scarborough fuel, each of that are key developments of the challenge.
But additionally in September, a full cultural heritage evaluation of business impacts from the ‘Burrup Hub’ on sacred Murujuga rock artwork was introduced. That investigation will report back to Federal Setting Minister Tanya Plibersek.
During the last 6 years, The Juice Media has launched a bunch of “Sincere Authorities Adverts”, all of which could be discovered right here.
Footnotes
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