WA PARLIAMENT SPRAYED WITH WOODSIDE LOGO IN BURRUP HUB PROTEST
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The West Australian Parliament has been sprayed with Woodside’s logo in a protest to highlight the government’s fossil fuel interest in the Burrup Hub Peninsula in the Pilbara.
This morning, Disrupt Burrup Hub member Tahlia Stolarski spray-painted the oil and gas corporation Woodsides logo in yellow paint across the front doors of the WA Parliament building.
“Our government subsidises Woodside’s Burrup Hub with tax breaks in exchange for the largest corporate donations in the country. While the PM and Premier parade around Port Hedland, the Burrup Hub just down the road is spewing out more emissions than any other project in the country,” she said on the steps of WA parliament.
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“No wonder WA’s carbon emissions keep climbing when the Burrup Hub alone will emit more than 6 billion tonnes by 2070 after this government approved its expansion. How can the Prime Minister claim to care about Australia’s climate obligations when the WA government is making it impossible with every new approval?”
Disrupt Burrup Hub is an activist group that opposes the expansion of industrial developments in the recently nominated World-Heritage Murujuga site in the Pilbara.
Murujuga holds significant cultural value to Indigenous peoples and is one of the largest rock art areas in the world holding more than one million petroglyphs.
Scientists have shown that industrial emissions in the area are damaging to the Murujuga rock art.
This is the third spray painting protest in a month by Disrupt Burrup Hub.
On Friday, the 13th of February, punk musician Trent Rojahn used a fire extinguisher charged with bright yellow paint to blast the ground floor windows of Woodside Plaza in Perth’s CBD.
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On the 19th of January, two Disrupt Burrup Hub protesters spray painted the Woodside logo over the painting Down on his Luck,
Joana Partyka, a ceramic artist and illustrator from Perth, sprayed the Woodside logo in yellow paint on the colonial masterpiece ‘Down on His Luck’ at the Art Gallery of WA.
The protest was subsequently endorsed by most descendants of ‘Down on His Luck’ painter Frederick McCubbin.
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Woodside's Burrup Hub is the biggest new fossil fuel project in Australia.
It consists of the Scarborough and Browse Basin gas fields, the Pluto Project processing plant, and other linked liquified natural gas (LNG) and fertiliser plants on the Burrup Peninsula in WA’s remote north-west Pilbara region.
The Burrup Hub is projected to produce more than 6 billion tons of CO2 by 2070, making it four times larger than the Adani coal mine and one of the biggest carbon bombs in the world.