Labor makes ‘big but unsurprising decision' on extension of the North West Shelf project
Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell discusses the 'big but unsurprising decision' by Environment Minister Murray Watt to approve the extension of the North West Shelf gas project.
'The reason not to pare back the application until 2050 was because climate change didn't even come into what the approval came under – the EPBC Act,' he said.
'In other words, the minister only had to look at the effect of the project on Indigenous rock art, not on climate. The government wants to change the EPBC Act to make things clearer and more certain, in line with the Samuel Review.
'But what the government will not be doing, I am told, is going anywhere near the suggestion of the Greens in terms of putting in a climate trigger into the EPBC Act.'
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