Inpex,which operates the Ichthys LNG project off the coast of Western Australia, has reportedly sought to abandon $30m worth of offset obligationsAn attempt by the operator of a $34bn gas project to walk absent from environmental offset obligations because it claims its impact was not as big as expected is “radically premature”, and a legal group has claimed.
The Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project to extract gas from off the coast of Western Australia,pipe it to a processing plant near Darwin, and then export it – primarily to Japan – received environmental approval in 2011 from the federal Labor government.
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Source: theguardian.com