{"id":67383,"date":"2022-11-08T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=67383"},"modified":"2022-11-08T07:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:30:29","slug":"woodside-burrup-hub-video-mb2706","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/woodside-burrup-hub-video-mb2706\/","title":{"rendered":"The Juice Media Take On Woodside, Er, WA Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Honest Government Ad | Visit WA! \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Key8y1yg2yQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Juice Media team are back, this time with a video tackling the controversial Burrup Hub oil\/gas project in Western Australia. Funny, disturbing, brutal and definitely NSFW.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>What Is The Burrup Hub?<\/h2>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/energyinformationaustralia.com.au\">Energy Information Australia<\/a>, which claims to provide &#8220;factual, evidence-based information about Australia\u2019s oil and gas exploration and production industry&#8221;<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/woodside-burrup-hub-video-mb2706\/#en-67383-1' id='enref-67383-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(67383)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, Burrup Hub is a group of projects to extend the life of existing Woodside-operated facilities on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia, and will create new energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/energyinformationaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/The-Burrup-Hub.pdf\">fact sheet<\/a>&#8221; is pretty light on information. It mentions bringing gas from the Scarborough and Browse fields to facilities on the mainland, expansion of Pluto LNG and a couple of other elements.<\/p>\n<p>The document claims Burrup Hub will provide an average of 4,000 jobs per year over a 40-year period, and of course there&#8217;s effective consultation with community, Traditional Owners and other stakeholders claimed to be happening.<\/p>\n<h2>Australia&#8217;s Most Polluting Project Ever?<\/h2>\n<p>The document also mentions the use of &#8220;efficient solutions and renewable technologies to limit emissions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just on those emissions &#8211; in 2020, the Conservation Council of Western Australia released a report claiming Burrup Hub would have a total carbon equivalent footprint of around 6 *billion* tonnes over its 50-year life.<\/p>\n<p>In that report, the CCWA also claimed Burrup Hub would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be the most polluting project ever to be developed in Australia.<\/li>\n<li>Be in direct breach of Australia\u2019s commitments on climate change.<\/li>\n<li>See more than 50 wells drilled to extract oil and gas from beneath the pristine Scott Reef off the Kimberley coast.<\/li>\n<li>Risk health impacts for local communities and workers.<\/li>\n<li>Cause permanent damage to the world\u2019s most extensive collection of Aboriginal rock art.<\/li>\n<li>Open up Western Australia to a large scale fracking and onshore gas industry.<\/li>\n<li>Deliver few benefits, while transferring billions of dollars of costs to West Australians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full CCWA report <a href=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/ccwa\/pages\/11683\/attachments\/original\/1581509847\/CCWA_Clean-State_Burrup-Hub_Report.pdf?1581509847\">can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Burrup Hub Status<\/h2>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard much about Burrup Hub recently, that&#8217;s probably by design. Use of the term &#8220;<span lang=\"EN-AU\" xml:lang=\"EN-AU\">Burrup Hub&#8221; was reportedly dropped by Woodside last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"EN-AU\" xml:lang=\"EN-AU\">&#8220;Since then, Woodside has preferred to break up the larger project into chunks when speaking to the public, without making clear that these pieces are interlinked,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/greens.org.au\/magazine\/what-you-need-know-about-burrup-hub\">says climate justice activist Gerard Mazza<\/a>. &#8220;It\u2019s attempted to avoid scrutiny of its plans which, when considered together, would make Australia\u2019s meagre climate targets difficult to meet and threaten the Murujuga rock art through chemical emissions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in July, the WA EPA approved an extension of Woodside\u2019s interconnected North West Shelf \/ Karratha Gas Plant, including the Browse Basin gas fields, until 2070. Construction commenced in September on Woodside\u2019s Pluto\/Scarborough project and the adjoining Perdaman fertiliser plant to be fed by Scarborough gas, both of which are key developments of the project.<\/p>\n<p>But also in September, a full cultural heritage assessment of industrial impacts from the \u2018Burrup Hub\u2019 on sacred Murujuga rock art <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saveoursonglines.org\/post\/gazette-notice-independent-investigation-into-threats-to-cultural-heritage-at-murujuga\">was announced<\/a>. That investigation will report to Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.<\/p>\n<p><i>Over the last 6 years, The Juice Media has released a bunch of &#8220;Honest Government Ads&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejuicemedia.com\/honest-government-ads\/\"> all of which can be found here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Juice Media team are back, this time with a video tackling the controversial Burrup Hub oil\/gas project in Western Australia. 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