A major environmental dispute over gas production from unused gas deposits in the sea has recently torn Australia and divided the country into two camps: those supporting gas production to reduce the use of more polluting environmental fuels, and environmental and climate organizations claiming gas production will further hit a reef in the region. Death of corals from 2016.
The latest environmental battle in Australia concerns a $ 16 billion project around a gas field called Scarborough that Woodside plans to exploit.
The Australian Conservation Fund (AFC) opposed the project, claiming that the gas production would harm the Great Barrier Reef and that the project should not be given an exit permit.
The regulator responsible for the project at the moment is the National Authority for the Environment and Oil Drilling in the Nopsma Sea, however the green organizations object that the regulator that it will be responsible for the current project.
They demand that it be handed over to the Federal Minister for the Environment and the Australian Federal Environmental Agency.
The organizations estimate that the development of this Scarborough gas field will result in emissions on the order of 1.37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in 25 years, an amount equal to all emissions in the Australian continent in three years.
In this regard, AFC Executive Director Kelly Oshansi said that “developing a gas field of this magnitude is a danger.
Scarborough is a climate bomb about to explode.
We should not fall into the argument that these emissions will not affect the reefs in Australia simply because the gas will be burned mainly abroad.
Woodside, on the other hand, as well as other business and state actors on the continent, argue in favor of gas production that burning it helps reduce fuel and coal use.
But they have so far not brought evidence of this position to court.
As stated, the one who will decide the dispute is the Australian court and it seems that the fight on the issue will continue for a long time.
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