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title: Woodside’s 2070 climate disaster is challenged by a record number of appeals
description: The green light from the EPA for Woodside’s 2070 climate disaster has seen more than 750 appeals lodged with WA’s Appeal Convenor.
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# Woodside’s 2070 climate disaster is challenged by a record number of appeals
Monday, 25 July 2022
The green light from the EPA for Woodside’s 2070 climate disaster has seen more than 750 appeals lodged with WA’s Appeal Convenor. The previous record for number of appeals was 170.
It comes after the International Energy Agency declared last year that there should be no new fossil fuel supply projects if the world was to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
[Record number of appeals lodged against Woodside’s 50-year gas project extension](https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/record-number-of-appeals-lodged-against-woodside-s-50-year-gas-project-extension-20220721-p5b3hr.html?fbclid=IwAR02hlz4fy29x4cUC2MukF6TUVOa6xhAPkphp_chS6eHbCvd0_nPQKho-pQ)
The North West Shelf project could put 4.3 billion tonnes of carbon in the air over the next 50 years if its extension is approved by WA’s environment minister.
[Labor restores ARENA’s renewables focus](https://esdnews.com.au/labor-restores-arenas-renewables-focus/)
The Labor government will scrap changes to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) introduced by the Morrison government that would have allowed it to fund some fossil fuel projects.
[Mining activity in WA protected forests, reserves approved 33 times in 5 years](https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/companies/mining-activity-in-protected-forests-on-the-rise-in-past-five-years-20220722-p5b3ub.html)
Ministerial consent for exploration and mining activity in nature reserves and other lands managed by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions has been granted on 33 occasions in the past five years in Western Australia.
[Coalition’s failure to tax gas windfall profits cost the nation billions](https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/coalitions-failure-to-tax-gas-windfall-profits-cost-the-nation-billions,16592)
Australians are vastly poorer as a result of the failure of the recently-departed Coalition Government to oblige foreign mineral and energy miners to pay a fair price for the resources they are selling abroad.
[Coalition government's pre-election carbon credit shake-up created 'sovereign risk', department warned](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-25/pre-election-carbon-credit-shake-up-foi-documents/101259776)
Secret documents detail a government regulator scrambling after then-energy minister Angus Taylor decided to effectively rip up decades-long contracts for carbon credits, gifting windfall profits of potentially billions of dollars to some private companies.
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