The country’s peak energy union has attacked the West Australian Premier’s response to concerns over worker health at Chevron’s Gorgon project, saying “our state is being taken for a ride by a tax-avoiding multinational corporation ... with the complicity of our own government.”
The CFMEU, Conservation Council of WA and Doctors for the Environment Australia have called for the government to intervene.Chevron management had “assured” him they were trying to get the facility up and running “as soon as possible”, but he did not specifically address the matter of the BTEX and mercury.
He said next Monday, on International Workers’ Memorial Day, he would watch state MPs lay wreaths in commemoration of the thousands who died due to Wittenoom asbestos mine, and “a host of other shameful failures”. "Chevron and all other companies with a footprint in this State are expected to adhere to their environmental conditions and requirements including, in the case of Barrow Island, a requirement to reinject CO2," he said.
"It is obviously technically difficult and probably quite expensive, but I would expect and hope that we will reach a resolution and that the project is implemented as soon as possible."
Emma_J_Young It was Peter Garrett who approved Gorgon in August 2009 Peter had also approved the Wiggins coal terminal in April 2008. This demonstrated that the Rudd government was as addicted to fossil fuels as the Howard government
Too big to fail Hmmmmm