Article 6FQT3 Santos angers Tiwi people as it pushes ahead with plans to lay pipeline in Barossa offshore gas project

Santos angers Tiwi people as it pushes ahead with plans to lay pipeline in Barossa offshore gas project

by
Lisa Cox
from Environment | The Guardian on (#6FQT3)

Community says company has not been in contact about plans for drilling operation threatening our environment and our cultural way of life'

Tiwi people have expressed anger at a Santos announcement that the company plans to commence laying one of the pipelines for its Barossa offshore gas project, which they say threatens burial grounds and sacred sites.

In its quarterly report, the fossil fuel company said it had notified Australia's offshore petroleum regulator Nopsema that it had complied with a direction issued earlier this year to survey for underwater cultural heritage sites.

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