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"Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project on the Burrup peninsula in Western
Australia is one of the world’s largest liquified natural gas ventures.
In May the Labor government approved an extension for the project to run for an
additional 40 years, from 2030 to 2070.
The extension is expected to be responsible for about 87.9m tonnes of carbon
dioxide equivalent every year in the decades ahead, after the gas has been
exported and burned, according to Woodside’s own numbers.
Despite the North West Shelf contributing “almost nothing” in terms of
Australian tax dollars, it will be responsible for emissions greater than
dozens of countries and many of the world’s biggest companies.
It can be hard to get your head around numbers this big.
This chart represents 87.9m tonnes of emissions (measured in carbon dioxide
equivalent, or CO2-e). Each square is 500 tonnes, which is about what you would
emit if you drove around Australia 125 times in an average car (which we define
below the chart)."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
