Australia’s laws to protect the environment don’t work. Woodside’s 40-year greenlight proves it

Approval of the North West Shelf extension shows the purpose of the EPBC Act is to allow developments, not to protect and preserve

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Australia’s law that is supposed to protect the environment and cultural heritage doesn’t work. There are few, if any, people who argue otherwise.

A case study comes via the environment minister Murray Watt’s statement of reasons for his approval of a 40-year life extension of the Woodside-operated North West Shelf gas plant in Western Australia.