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Call for Woodside to extract more value, not more gas

Woodside Energy is under fire for its management of climate risk and capital as activist investors slam recent "high-cost, high-emission" acquisitions.

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Australia’s north-west reefs teem with life – but they are also at the centre of a massive fossil fuel expansion

Woodside’s designs on the country’s largest untapped gas basin around Scott Reef are, some say, just another example of fossil fuel companies getting their way in what has become a petrostate

The Guardian - AU

Woodside to be 'global LNG powerhouse' after $1.4b deal

Australia's Woodside Energy has agreed to buy the US developer of an under-construction LNG project in the Gulf of Mexico for $US900 million.

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Biden's big news, IT outage drags ASX to 11-day low

The ASX200 dropped 0.5 per cent as US President Joe Biden stood down from his re-election bid and a new front opened in the Middle East conflict.

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Senegal joins oil-producing nations with launch of first offshore field

Senegal has joined the ranks of oil-producing nations with Australian company Woodside Energy on Tuesday announcing the start of production in the West African country's first offshore project.

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Climate holdout Japan drove Australia’s LNG boom. Could the partnership go green?

Without funding from Japan, many of Australia’s gas projects wouldn’t have gone ahead. Massive public loans from Japanese taxpayers are propping up Australia’s now-enormous fossil gas industry. Japan is also becoming a major gas trader and today exports more gas to other countries than it imports from Australia.

The Conversation

Production Starts At Senegal's First Offshore Oil Field

Senegal joined the club of oil-producing countries on Tuesday as Australian group Woodside Energy announced that production had started in the west African country's first offshore project.

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Nine independent MPs and Greens back UN call for Australia to ban fossil fuel advertising

‘The industry is rapidly strangling our planet,’ says Andrew Wilkie, who joins Allegra Spender, Sophie Scamps, Zali Steggall and Monique Ryan in call for ban

The Guardian - AU

Super funds giving a green light to 'climate wreckers'

Superannuation funds have come under fire for doubling down on their investments in fossil fuels while cutting half a billion dollars from green energy funding.

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Australian shares cap off another week of gains

Gas companies and the big four banks all rose on the back of energy policy announcements and a hold in interest rates.

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Teen climate activists demand apology from premier

Climate activists who protested inside Woodside's annual general meeting claim the WA premier defamed them to the media and have demanded an apology.

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Two 17-year-old climate activists claim WA premier Roger Cook defamed them over Woodside protest

Emma Heyink and Tom Power say the premier made false comments about protest at company’s annual general meeting

The Guardian - AU

How do we define climate responsibility? Woodside has no answer

So long as oil and gas companies remain wedded to self-interest, the push against them isn’t going away

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Woodside shareholders reject climate plan

Woodside Energy shareholders have re-elected chairman Richard Goyder but rejected the company's climate plan in a raucous four-hour meeting.

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Australia’s largest super fund joins protest vote against Woodside’s climate plans

AustralianSuper says it has ‘ongoing concerns’ about how the country’s biggest oil and gas company will reach net zero emissions by 2050

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ACTU calls for sanctions on Israel over Gaza war – as it happened

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Australian shares at two-month low as Mideast heats up

The ASX200 fell one per cent on Friday to end a horror week for equity traders as rising tensions between Israel and Iran sent bonds and oil prices soaring.

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Woodside revenue dives as fossil fuel prices dip

Australia's largest oil and gas producer Woodside has suffered a heavy loss in revenue as a result of a fall in fossil fuel production and prices.

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Woodside defends 'honest' response to climate change

Woodside Energy's chair Richard Goyder has defended the gas giant's response to climate change in the face of fierce criticism of expansion plans.

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Divest or liquidate the 'end game' for Santos, Woodside

Independent research presents stark options for Australia's gas producers as shareholders get set to scrutinise Santos and Woodside Energy on expansion plans.

The Guardian - AU

Kim Beazley urges Tanya Plibersek to reject Woodside LNG plant extension

Former Labor leader joins other ex-ALP leaders, Indigenous elders and scientists in calling for protection of Indigenous rock art on WA’s Burrup peninsula

The Guardian - AU

Labor dissent sees Plibersek’s veto on offshore gas project rules restored

Internal lobbying has added safeguards to a power for the resources minister to water down consultation requirements

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Woodside preparing 'new climate bomb' on gas peninsula

A gas hub proposed by Woodside Energy would undermine efforts to counter climate change and seriously damage Australia's credibility, environmentalists say.

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Woodside, Santos expansion less than super for funds

Some superannuation funds are reducing exposure to Woodside and Santos as members demand more climate action instead of their money bankrolling new gas fields.

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Woodside under the pump on climate risk as profit falls

Critics say Woodside Energy's carbon reduction plans are "meaningless" as the oil and gas giant expands to meet decades of demand expected for Australian LNG.

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