Government Assures Extending The ​​North West Shelf Gas Project Until 2070 Is Fine As They Will All Be Dead By Then

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle

Environmental Minister Murray Watt has today brushed off concerns about North Shelf Gas Project’s effect on climate change, by assuring  that none of the people who green lit the decision will be alive to see it to fruition.

The North West Gas Project was originally set to conclude by 2030 but was granted an extension by Watt, who last week came to the decision that the mammoth project would be extended to 2070.

This decision has prompted outcry from conservation groups and traditional custodians, who have described the project as the most polluting project in the southern hemisphere, and a ‘betrayal’ to Aboriginal people, who cite the project will accelerate the degradation of the World Heritage listed rock art.

Vanuatu’s climate change minister has also weighed in on the decision, criticising the expected approval of project as ‘internationally wrongful.’

The decision to extend the project came just shortly before the Australian government released a damning climate risk assessment that reported that without intervention, the nation is set to face extreme heat, flooding and drought by the year 2050.

Most damning to property investors is the potential for up to 500 billion to be wiped off property values, as houses located in coastal regions face the brunt of climate change.

However none of the politicians who approved this decision are concerned about fast tracking a climate catastrophe, because ‘it’s a shit ton of money’ and ‘sounds like a problem for future you haha.’

More to come.