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Environment minister Murray Watt is due to make a decision on whether to extend the controversial North West Shelf development in coming days

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• Reliable energy or carbon bomb'? What's at stake in the battle over Australia's North West Shelf

Unless something remarkable - the federal court, perhaps - intervenes, the Albanese government will this week make a decision that could have ramifications for greenhouse gas emissions and Indigenous heritage that last for decades - or longer. It relates to the future of the North West Shelf, one of the world's largest liquified natural gas (LNG) projects.

Most discussion about it assumes that it is a done deal - that the environment minister, Murray Watt, will give the green light to an application by Woodside Energy to extend the life of the gas export processing facility on the Burrup peninsula in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

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