The NT Environment Protection Authority has renewed the Darwin Liquified Natural Gas plant’s licence for another five years with new conditions, but appears to be permitting Santos to decide how much a leaking storage tank can continue to leak, a decision the Environment Centre NT said was providing a license to pollute while showing the regulator would not enforce consequences for “super emitters”.
The ECNT last week called for Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro to announce an investigation into NT EPA chair Paul Vogel’s actions, after it was revealed he did not disclose a perceived conflict of interest he had by working for a lobbyist firm called Purple that did work for Inpex, which is a co-owner of the DLNG plant.
That was a good leak, twenty years and no damage. Fear of methane is just another beatup