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One might ask why, if trees are sucking all coal’s carbon dioxide out of the sky, the gas continues to accumulate in the atmosphere, adding unfathomable amounts of extra heat to the oceans and driving worsening fire conditions in forests (where magic trees grow).WASHINGTON - Even as world leaders vow to take stronger action on climate change, many countries are still planning to dramatically increase their production of oil, gas and coal in the decades ahead, potentially undermining those lofty pledges, according to a United Nations-backed report released Tuesday. The protesters should have sat with him in grade 6 where children “would have known how the balance of nature works”. “Coal is a great renewable resource because the trees suck it out of the sky – that carbon dioxide – every night and turn it back into oxygen,” he said. On Credlin’s show, the former Howard government minister Gary Hardgrave was confused about why protesters would be targeting coal. Sky News Australia host Peta Credlin described it as “export terrorism” and suggested the government should ban the activists from accessing welfare.

Photograph: Blockade Australia/AAPĬlimate activists have blockaded ports in Newcastle, Brisbane and Melbourne this week trying to disrupt the coal trade, causing some traffic jams and delays.

Woodside thinks Trion will be financially “resilient” in a decarbonising world because it would make a quick return on investment and two-thirds of the fossil fuels would be extracted “within 10 years of start up”.Ī protester atop the Kooragang rail bridge in Newcastle on Monday as part of an action to block shipments of coal. Woodside does have targets for the emissions from its own operations (before the fossil fuels are sold and burned) but the company allows itself to buy offsets to meet them, which it did last year to turn a 3.5% rise in emissions into an 11% fall. But that pledge is dwarfed by the money it is spending on fossil fuel production.īefore announcing the US$4.8bn spend on Trion, the company said it planned to spend another US$6bn or so on an oilfield in Senegal and its Scarborough LNG project in Western Australia. Instead, the company says it will invest up to US$5bn in “new energy products and low-carbon services” by 2030. Most of the greenhouse gases from Trion will come when the oil and gas is burned and Woodside has no targets covering those emissions. How can Trion fit into Woodside’s climate targets? There will be 24 wells and Pemex and Woodside are planning for the first oil to be pumped in 2028.Īnnouncing the investment, Woodside pointed to analysis carried out for the UN’s climate science panel that it said showed there were “a range of future energy transition pathways” that allowed for new supply of fossil fuels while keeping the global temperature rise to 1.5C.ĭrilling for all this oil and gas in a new development would not even compromise the company’s climate targets, it said.īut analysts told Temperature Check the Trion project would lead to the release of about 365m tonnes of CO 2-equivalent over its lifetime – equal to about 80% of Australia’s annual emissions. Pemex discovered the oil and gas 2.5km deep, about 180km off shore in the Gulf of Mexico.