WA government draws ire of green groups for approving Woodside gas pipeline in Pilbara

This pipeline is the key piece of infrastructure that would enable Australia's most polluting fossil fuel project to proceed' says climate campaigner

The Western Australian government has been criticised for approving the final stage of a controversial Woodside Energy-led gas export development in the state's north, three days after the launch of a landmark climate science report.

The government gave the green light to 32.7km of pipeline to be constructed through state waters on the Pilbara coast. It allows the installation of the full 430km pipeline, most of it in commonwealth waters, that Woodside has proposed to transport gas from the Scarborough offshore basin to the Pluto liquified natural gas (LNG) processing facility on the Burrup Peninsula.