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title: Woodside, Don’t Be A Tosser
description: Greenpeace Australia Pacific carried out a protest on a discarded oil tower owned by Woodside Energy on Sunday.
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# Woodside, Don’t Be A Tosser
Monday, 15 May 2023
[Greenpeace activists scale turret in Woodside protest](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2023/may/14/australia-news-live-jim-chalmers-federal-budget-peter-dutton-anthony-albanese-amanda-rishworth-shark-attack-victoria-nazis?page=with:block-6460502d8f08e7793c5e292b#block-6460502d8f08e7793c5e292b)
Activists with Greenpeace Australia Pacific have carried out a protest on a discarded oil tower owned by Woodside Energy on Sunday. The activists dropped a banner reading, “Woodside, Don’t Be A Tosser”.
[Woodside Energy confirms Greenpeace sit-down to discuss differences](https://thewest.com.au/business/energy/woodside-energy-confirms-greenpeace-sit-down-to-confront-differences-c-10634586)
Woodside Energy confirmed on Friday it had written to Greenpeace formally offering a sit-down to discuss their differences following a surprise invitation issued by its leadership at last month’s annual general meeting.
[We thought we’d saved the whales. Were we wrong?](https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/we-thought-we-d-saved-the-whales-were-we-wrong-20230405-p5cyf9.html)
Antarctica is a space of solace and sustenance for southern-hemisphere whales, but for how much longer?
[Can Australia reach its climate targets?](https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2023/05/13/can-australia-reach-its-climate-targets)
Australia is on track to meet its 2030 climate targets – but new accounting of methane could substantially change that, by more accurately assessing underreported emissions.
[Hydrogen needs to hit the gas, fossil fuel lobby says](https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-news-live-ato-to-crack-down-on-landlords-work-related-deductions-gas-producers-lashed-albanese-government-over-hydrogen-plans-20230515-p5d8cb.html)
Gas producers will argue the federal government is at risk of delaying commercialisation of the nascent clean hydrogen industry by excluding fossil fuels from its new $2 billion fund to kick-start the emerging industry.
[Gas retailers free to ‘take advantage’: Woodside](https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/gas-retailers-free-to-take-advantage-woodside-20230514-p5d87q)
Gas retailers would be free to take advantage of gas pricing rules on the east coast and rake in super profits unless changes are made to a proposed mandatory code of conduct, Woodside Energy has told the Labor government.
[El Niño extremely likely to impact Australian summer, US scientists predict](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/14/extremely-high-likelihood-forecast-el-nino-will-impact-australian-summer-us-scientists-predict)
Eastern Australia looks set for a drier winter and spring as a US federal agency predicts an “extremely high likelihood” of an El Niño developing later in the year.
[Four charts on the unstoppable growth of solar – our best hope against climate change](https://reneweconomy.com.au/four-charts-on-the-unstoppable-growth-of-solar-our-best-hope-against-climate-change/)
Solar is now growing much faster than any other energy technology in history. How fast? Fast enough to completely displace fossil fuels from the entire global economy before 2050.
[Meteorologists are the new targets in global social media misinformation](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-13/meteorologists-targeted-in-climate-misinfo-surge/102342754)
Once trusted faces on the news, meteorologists now brave threats, insults and slander online from conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers who accuse them of faking or even fixing the weather.
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