SYDNEY, Monday 11 May 2026 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has branded Woodside's Browse gas report released to media today as being "so ludicrous it reads like satire" and a dangerous distraction from the urgent action needed to save Scott Reef and address soaring emissions.
The report states Woodside's Browse offshore gas drilling project at Scott Reef would have no impact on Western Australia's net zero targets, as the state was on track to miss them anyway.
Hannah Schuch, Senior Campaigner at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said: "Woodside's report is so ludicrous it reads like satire. It is nothing but the self-serving tosh expected from a multinational gas corporation exploiting the global energy crisis to drill for more expensive, volatile and polluting gas to export for profit.
"Claiming a massive carbon bomb would somehow help the net zero transition is delusional. If Woodside's reckless Browse gas project went ahead, it would be one of the most polluting projects in the country and turn one of Australia's last pristine oceanic reef systems, Scott Reef, into an industrial gas zone.
"The WA EPA already made an initial finding that Woodside's plan to drill at least 50 wells near Scott Reef, home to nesting sea turtles, endangered pygmy blue whales and other endangered species, posed unacceptable risks to the environment.
"Most recently, independent scientific experts demonstrated that Woodside's amended plans do nothing for the survival of these key threatened species found at Scott Reef but just tinker around the edges. For Woodside to flaunt these plans as a win for net zero, is flabbergasting and frankly insulting.
"Woodside continuously fails to deliver gas to West Australians. According to the DomGas Alliance less than 4% of gas from Woodside's Pluto facility has been supplied to the local market — far short of the 15% requirement.
"The global energy crisis has laid bare the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. WA has access to world-class renewable energy resources, which modelling shows could power the state's homes, hospitals and key industries with clean, cheap and affordable energy. WA has a choice: displace gas with renewables, or displace renewables with gas.
"Environment Minister Murray Watt has a responsibility to protect the environment and put an end to this dangerous project once and for all. Minister Watt and the Albanese government's environmental credentials ride on protecting Scott Reef from Woodside's dirty gas for good.
"Greenpeace is calling for Murray Watt to listen to the half a million Australians that have asked him to stop this nature and climate-wrecking project and protect Scott Reef for generations to come."
