Santos’s $5.8bn Barossa gas pipeline project can go ahead after Tiwi Islanders lose court battle

Federal court has lifted temporary injunction preventing construction work on part of the pipeline route

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Santos's $5.8bn Barossa offshore gas project has taken another step forward after the federal court dismissed a legal challenge by a group of Tiwi Islanders to the construction of a pipeline.

In a decision on Monday, Justice Natalie Charlesworth dismissed the legal action and lifted a temporary injunction that had prevented Santos from beginning construction work in an area on the pipeline route.

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