Australia Extends License for Nation’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Project

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Save Our Songlines protesters march near the site of the North West Shelf oil and gas project in 2022. © 2022 Save Our Songlines Last week, the Australian government announced it had given preliminary approval for the country’s biggest fossil fuel project, the North West Shelf Project, to continue operations until 2070. The facility, on Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula, is the country's largest liquefied natural gas plant. The extension has been opposed by Indigenous activists and climate and human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch.The…

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