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Australia Approves Natural Gas Project Construction
The project on Barrow Island would be run by US oil firm Chevron, and partners.
Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil will supply gas to China. The companies have agreed to protect the local fauna, especially turtles. Environmentalists have however criticised the project, known as the Gorgon gas field.
Barrow Island is home to a number of endangered, rare and endemic species, including the Barrow Island mouse and the flat back turtle.
Exxon Mobil earlier signed a $41.8m deal to export gas from its share of the project to PetroChina over 20 years.
Barrow Island has been the location of industrial activities for some decades," he added, saying he had imposed 28 environmental conditions.
But Green
politicians reacted angrily to the decision,
saying Mr Garrett was signing off on the
destruction of a unique environment. BBC/ Qasim/ Funke |
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Australia
has given final approval for a forty-two billion
dollar huge natural gas project to be built on
an island nature reserve off west Australia.