Greg Bourne, former BP Australasia president, once worked alongside Australia’s biggest LNG venture: Woodside’s North West Shelf.

Now a councillor at the Climate Council, he warns extending the project will unleash billions of tonnes of emissions and threaten tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings, while delivering a “pittance” in economic benefit to Australia.

Yet Bourne says the decision to keep the project running until 2070 was almost inevitable, after decades of lobbying in Canberra.

Today, Greg Bourne on how Woodside got the green light – and the reform he says is needed to stop the next fossil-fuel behemoth.

 

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Guest: Former BP Australasia president, Greg Bourne.

Photo: AAP Image/Supplied by Woodside Energy

Greg Bourne, former BP Australasia president, once worked alongside Australia&rsquo;s biggest LNG venture: Woodside&rsquo;s North West Shelf.
Now a councillor at the Climate Council, he warns extending the project will unleash billions of tonnes of emissions and threaten tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings, while delivering a &ldquo;pittance&rdquo; in economic benefit to Australia.
Yet Bourne says the decision to keep the project running until 2070 was almost inevitable, after decades of lobbying in Canberra.
Today, Greg Bourne on how Woodside got the green light &ndash; and the reform he says is needed to stop the next fossil-fuel behemoth.
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Guest: Former BP Australasia president, Greg Bourne.
Photo: AAP Image/Supplied by Woodside Energy

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The years of lobbying behind Woodside’s North West Shelf approval

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