Conservationists and Traditional Owners are rallying outside today's annual general meeting of gas giant Woodside in Perth.
"Gas corporations like Woodside make massive profits exporting 80% of Australia's gas - which is owned by the people of this country - yet they pay pennies in tax compared to their profits," said Australian Conservation Foundation climate campaigner Piper Rollins.
"We all pay the price here at home through higher bills and worse bushfires, heatwaves and floods, fuelled by the burning of Woodside's product.
"Not only could Woodside's proposed oil and gas project at Scott Reef wreck critical habitat for endangered marine animals like the pygmy blue whale and green turtle, but research for ACF shows the climate pollution from the Browse project would kill 29.35 million coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef in every mass bleaching event."
Woodside plans to pipe the Browse gas drilled at Scott Reef via a 1000km underwater pipeline to the controversial North West Shelf gas hub at Murujuga.
Kaylene Daniel, Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Murujuga Traditional Custodian, said: "We will be attending the AGM today because it is important to speak up about what Woodside are doing to Murujuga. If no one says anything, it won't be protected."
ACF has written to environment minister Murray Watt with a Browse assessment 'reconsideration request' based on substantial new scientific information.
"ACF will be in the Federal Court in coming months, challenging the Environment Minister's failure to consider the climate harm that will flow from the pollution from the North West Shelf extension," Ms Rollins said.
"We will argue the Minister wrongfully tipped the scales in favour of the North West Shelf extension by including the supposed economic benefits of the proposed Browse gas project - which Woodside hopes will feed the gas hub, but has not been approved.
"We refuse to let big polluting companies like Woodside sacrifice our wildlife and our children's future. We'll do everything we can to stop them - including in court."
