Greenpeace call for removal of Woodside's sunken gas mooring tower 'decaying' on ocean floor

Environmental activist organization Greenpeace is insisting that Woodside, an oil and gas company, must promptly remove a submerged gas tower located near the Western Australian coastline. Greenpeace CEO David Ritter expressed the "outright arrogance" displayed by fossil fuel owners of the tower in leaving it submerged and decaying.

While oil and gas executives double down on spruiking gas as an essential part of the clean energy transition, energy finance analysts are rebutting this claim as ludicrous.

And Teachers Mutual Bank has revealed plans to electrify its entire fleet and is hoping the move will urge other banks to do the same.

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Greenpeace call for removal of Woodside's sunken gas mooring tower 'decaying' on ocean floor
A sunken gas tower off the coast of Western Australia needs to be immediately removed by oil and gas company Woodside, according to environmental activist group Greenpeace. Greenpeace CEO David Ritter said footage shot by the group showed the tower "decaying" and demonstrated the "sheer arrogance" of both Woodside and BHP, who owned the tower when it sank.

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