Fed: Gorgon project is greenhouse-intensive: Garrett

AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2009
Fed: Gorgon project is greenhouse-intensive: Garrett

Federal environment minister PETER GARRETT admits the $50 billion Gorgon gas project
is very greenhouse gas intensive and there's no guarantee a plan to bury the emissions
will work.

Mr GARRETT has conceded the massive LNG project on WA's Barrow Island could increase
Australia's overall emissions by as much as one per cent.

The Rudd government has pledged to cut emissions by between 5 and 25 per cent over
the next decade.

The project's proponents hope to bury some of the emissions under the seabed.

When asked on ABC's Lateline program if those emissions could leak out .. Mr GARRETT
said: could's probably the operative word.

Mr GARRETT denies his green light for the project was a foregone conclusion.

AAP RTV ca/fdf

KEYWORD: GORGON GARRETT (CANBERRA)

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