A John R. Major incident during the instalment of Woodside’s Scarborough grapevine off Western sandwich Australia has inflated grievous concerns for Indigenous custodians, environmentalists and the trade union representing offshore workers.
There were deuce dissever incidents in Jan on a declarer vessel, Castorone, patch it was functional on the instalment of the Scarborough trunkline, which was damaged, Woodside has habitual.
Neither resulted in trauma and the condom of workers, the environs and its assets remained the ‘highest priority’, according to a voice.
“Woodside teams have been working to support (Italian owner of the vessel) Saipem and ensure the wellbeing of all personnel … safe ongoing operations and remediation work to the trunkline.”
But the pairing that represents workers on the project, the Offshore Alliance, says it has been nurture rubber issues for months.
“After being lucky not to kill workers on the Castorone earlier in the year in a major incident which resulted in the Scarborough Project pipelayer being shut down, Saipem have f***ed things up once again by flooding the pipe,” the marriage aforementioned in a Facebook Emily Post.
“This is a major incident which is almost inevitably going to shut the Castorone down for an extended period.
“Unions induce been warning Woodside roughly the pathetic base hit and maintenance finish of Saipem and the inevitable touch on our members and the contrive to a greater extent broadly speaking.”
Mardudhunera woman Raelene Cooper won a Federal court case in September when her lawyers, the Environmental Defender’s Office, argued the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority wrongly approved the project before Woodside had consulted with Murujuga traditional custodians on seismic testing work, a precursor to drilling.
Ms Cooper said she was scared for animals, the environment and for her sacred songlines.
“When incidents the like the Scarborough pipeline catastrophe … go on it is traumatic, it is tragical and it is terrifying,” she said.
“Man, industry, governments, decision-makers are fashioning painful decisions to countenance these companies and these projects to go beforehand without enlightened the unknowns … what happens when a fully pressurized flatulency pipeline breaks in our cherished ocean?”
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) called for the gas project to be halted.
“This indorse pipeline bust in a month shows Woodside cannot be sure on prophylactic or situation protection,” ACF’s exports campaigner Elizabeth Sullivan he said.
“Woodside’s climate-laying waste Scarborough petrol stick out should not continue.”
The Scarborough project is backed by the WA government and includes drilling 13 offshore wells, a 430km pipeline and the redevelopment of Woodside’s onshore processing facility.
Woodside expects to process five to eight million tonnes of gas per year from it, which critics say could result in the release of an estimated 878 million tonnes of carbon across the project’s lifetime.
The onshore facility is located on the Burrup Peninsula, about 30km west of Karratha, known as Murujuga to traditional owners, and contains the world’s largest and oldest collection of petroglyphs.
