The oil giant’s besieged gas project north of Darwin has struck another legal hurdle, with six Tiwi Island elders urging the government to stop the installation of a critical pipeline due to start within days.
Santos’ besieged $5.7 billion gas project north of Darwin has struck another legal hurdle, with Tiwi Islanders applying to Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to stop the installation of a critical gas pipeline due to start within days.
The action is the latest step in continuing legal battles between two massive gas export projects and groups concerned about Indigenous heritage and climate change. The move on Monday under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act comes a year after Santos’ controversial high-emissions gas export project was rocked by a federal court direction tothree months later, left an expensive drilling rig idle ever since, with industry observers doubting Santos’ claim that the project would be completed on schedule.Santos chief executive Kevin Gallagher last week said the heritage survey was completed.
Senior Jikilaruwu elder Molly Munkara - one of the six Tiwi Islanders behind the latest action - said the Barossa pipeline would pass through stories of the Sea Country that have been passed down from her ancestors since time began.
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