Environment Tasmania stands with fellow Conservation Councils around Australia in opposition to Woodside’s destructive North West Shelf project. With June 4th declared a National Day of Action, Conservation Councils in every state and territory have protested against the Labor Government’s approval of the North West Shelf gas expansion.

Environment Tasmania protesters joined dozens of concerned community members outside Labor Senator Carol Brown’s office this morning, holding signs to busy morning traffic that clearly called to “Stop the North West Shelf Carbon Bomb.” Protestors delivered a letter to Senator Brown's office asking for a meeting to discuss the project. This event follows a protest last Wednesday outside the office of Labor MP Julie Collins, where demonstrators urged the Minister to lobby Agriculture Minister Murray Watt and use her platform to speak out against the project. Environmental groups remain determined to keep up the pressure on Federal Labor.

Environment Tasmania’s Climate and Energy Campaigner, Maddie McShane, said "We stand with Conservation Councils around Australia calling out Labor's broken promises to take climate action. This project completely undermines efforts to cut pollution elsewhere and reveals a disturbing failure to take climate action seriously. It is a death sentence for our climate.”

The project is expected to release 88 million tonnes of carbon pollution per year into the atmosphere- equivalent to more than 13 years of Australia’s annual emissions over its lifetime. Alarmingly, this one project is projected to produce more than double the emissions the government has pledged to cut by 2030.* This project is the 27th coal, oil or gas project approved by the Albanese government since they have been in power.

McShane adds “Whilst this project extension is devastating for the biodiversity of the North West Shelf and culturally sacred petroglyphs of Murujuga, it also spells disaster far beyond Western Australian borders."