In another setback for Santos' $4.7 billion Barossa gas project, the national regulator has ordered the company to pause construction of its pipeline over concerns about its potential impact on Indigenous cultural sites.
abc.net.au/news/nt-santos-pause-barossa-gas-pipeline-nopsema-direction/101888172Gas giant Santos has been ordered to pause construction of the pipeline for its $4.7 billion Barossa gas project after a regulator found some potential risks to Aboriginal cultural sites were not canvassed in an earlier environmental plan.
against a clan of Tiwi Islands traditional owners, who argued they were not properly consulted about plans to drill through their sea country.Lawyers for Dennis Tipakalippa successfully argued his clan should have been consulted about Santos' Barossa project. The closest the gas pipeline will come to the Tiwi Islands is about seven kilometres off the west coast.In a statement, a Santos spokesperson said the company's environment plan for its gas export pipeline was accepted by NOPSEMA in March 2020 "following a full and complete consultation process"."As is usual practice, Santos is following the procedures in the approved environment plan and implementing the general direction.
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