Australia’s biggest oil and gas company plans to dump part of an oil facility it failed to properly maintain on the sea floor to create an “artificial reef”, less than two kilometres from the Ningaloo Coast Reef World Heritage Area in Western Australia.
The proposal from Perth-based oil and gas company Woodside is one of the first of its kind in Australia — but is unlikely to be the last.
News article on 23 July 2021 by Michael Slezak, National Science, Technology and Environment reporter from abc.net.au
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