The NT’s environmental regulator is investigating after Inpex admitted to under-reporting toxic emissions from its Ichthys LNG plant, with errors in the way “some emissions” from the plant have been calculated and reported since 2018, including volatile organic compounds such as benzene, a leukaemia-causing chemical, which a doctor says could cause serious health problems.

The under-reporting was first raised in The Australian, which reported that Inpex had released “far-greater” cancer-causing pollutants over the past seven years that it reported, and that the company neglected to notify the public about the nature of the emissions.

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