In August, Friends of Australian Rock Art and other signatories wrote to Premier Roger Cook, Environment Minister Reece Whitby, and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Tony Buti to raise concerns over the risks to cultural heritage that would result from the extension of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas facility. A similar letter was sent to all WA Parliamentarians.

This report provides a summary of new data from several sources to demonstrate that LNG processing facilities on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia are having an ongoing damaging impact on ancient Murujuga rock art proposed for World Heritage Listing.

If you have walked through Yagan Square recently, or picked up a copy of your local paper, or read the news online, you will have found it hard to avoid the misleading claims from Woodside about their Scarborough gas project.

Friends of Australian Rock Art co-founder Dr Stephen Bennetts and Conservation Council of WA Executive Director Jess Beckerling were at the Woodside AGM in April to ask execs about the impacts of the Burrup Hub gas project on the globally-significant Murujuga rock art.