Plan for Australia’s largest carbon capture project near Darwin criticised as creating ‘dumping ground’

Climate advocates fear the project, proposed by Japanese oil and gas giant Inpex, would turn the area into the world's largest carbon dumping ground'

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Oil and gas giant Inpex has proposed Australia's largest carbon capture facility in waters off the Northern Territory, which climate advocates have warned could turn Darwin into a carbon dumping ground.

The Bonaparte carbon capture and storage (CCS) project proposes to pipe and store 8m to 10m tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into an underground aquifer located about 250km offshore west of Darwin, according to documents lodged with the federal environment department.