Big gas is fuelling the climate crisis more than any other industry in Western Australia.
Despite overwhelming scientific evidence to support reducing emissions – and quickly – WA is rapidly expanding its most polluting industry.
Our strategy is directed at stopping the biggest WA gas plans: Woodside’s Burrup Hub mega gas project including Scarborough, the North West Shelf Extension and Browse.
Learn more about the Burrup Hub threat here!
West Aussies are already suffering the effects of the climate crisis.
WA has always experienced some extreme weather, but what we’re seeing now is far more frequent and intense than we’ve seen before. Hotter heatwaves, bigger bushfires, changes in rainfall, droughts, floods and more damaging cyclones – these are all becoming more common.
Every fraction of a degree of warming matters and can be measured in lives, species and ecosystems. The survival of our iconic natural places – like Ningaloo Reef and the Northern Jarrah Forest – depends on us acting now.
If WA was a country, it would be the third biggest exporter of gas in the world.
No matter where it is burned, these exports are fuelling climate change across the globe. That means more fires, floods, storms, and droughts.
These impacts are felt the most by communities that have contributed the least to climate change, in WA, and across the world, including our neighbours like Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Pacific Island nations. It is our responsibility to hold WA’s gas industry to account for the climate damage and injustice it is causing here and overseas.
Australia’s gas industry gets away with paying little in royalties and taxes and employing few workers. Companies like Woodside contribute little to Australia’s economy – while costing Australians by damaging our climate and nature.
Analysis from the Australia Institute suggests Woodside will export up to $215 billion in gas from the North West Shelf without paying any royalties on it.
Gas companies likes to talk about how gas keeps the lights on in Australia, but the fact is, the North West Shelf extension takes more from the domestic market than it puts back in. The plant itself uses more gas to operate on an annual basis than the amount supplied into the WA market.
Analysis by the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility also suggests that fossil fuel companies like Woodside are underperforming for shareholders.
Taxpayers like you are losing too - $14.9 billion in 2024/2025 to be exact on tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuel companies.
Gas is methane – a fossil fuel.
Gas makes the emissions crisis worse, not better.
Methane is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.
It does not make sense to develop further gas when renewable energy is cheaper and cleaner.
