Located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Woodside’s Burrup Hub is the biggest fossil gas export facility in the Southern Hemisphere. It includes the North West Shelf gas project, recently allowed an extension by the federal government, and the almost-complete Scarborough gas extension. Woodside plans to further expand the Burrup Hub by drilling for gas beneath Scott Reef for the Browse gas project — but this plan has no approvals from state or federal governments.
Recent research revealed that the Scarborough component, which will emit 876 million tonnes of CO2, will be responsible for 484 additional heat-related deaths in Europe alone this century.
What does this say about the Burrup Hub as a whole?
If allowed to go ahead in full, Woodside’s Burrup Hub gas expansion plans would create 6 billion tonnes of carbon pollution — making it one of the world’s biggest and most dangerous fossil fuel proposals. The Burrup Hub would produce as much carbon pollution as driving every car, truck, bus and boat in Australia for over 65 years.
Woodside’s Burrup Hub poses unacceptable risks to climate, nature, cultural heritage and the Australian economy.
The climate crisis is already causing more natural disasters, hunger, conflict and rising sea levels. To address the climate crisis, the world needs to transition rapidly to renewables — not double down on fossil fuels.
