Understorey: Scarborough Gas~ New Environment Minister’s Moment of Truth

Woodside’s proposed Scarborough Gas Project off the Burrup Peninsula will outdo Adani’s coal mine for greenhouse gas emissions.  Newly appointed WA Environment Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson is due any day to release her decision about what greenhouse offset conditions she will require should this mega project proceed. Depending on her sign-off, Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson will either show her credentials as Environment Minister, and Minister for Climate Action, reflecting a Western Australian commitment to the Paris Agreement, or we will get business as usual, meaning Western Australia will continue to be one of the world’s worst carbon polluters.  Professor Peter Newman thinks there’s a better way.  Adrian Glamorgan asks what such a new Western Australian economy might look like, and how soon we can get there.

(Photo: Professor Peter Newman, by A Glamorgan)