"Tiwi traditional owners launch Federal Court action to try to stop Santos Barossa gas field", 7 June 2022

Indigenous traditional owners from the Northern Territory's remote Tiwi Islands have launched Federal Court action in a bid to stop the development of a multi-billion-dollar gas project off the coast of Darwin.

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However, traditional owners claim the gas company and the federal government failed to ensure they were properly consulted about the project's potential risks to their marine environment, dreaming story tracks and animals.

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Santos has said it plans to minimise climate changing emissions from the project by using carbon capture and storage.

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In its Environment Plan, Santos said the risk of a spill was low to medium and it outlined a series of measures to prevent and deal with that eventuality, including having ships ready to try to clean a spill up, and building its wells to high technical and integrity standards.

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In its Environment Plan for the pipeline, which was approved in March 2020, Santos's then project partner ConocoPhillips recorded that it consulted the Tiwi Land Council in 2018 and was able to satisfy its concerns about nesting turtles.

"A meeting with the Tiwi Land Council was held to discuss the gas export pipeline installation EP discussed the TLC's issues and concerns related to impacts and risks to the seabed and nearby habitat and turtle activity due to pipeline installation," it said.

"ConocoPhillips responded in writing to all the concerns raised and the TLC advised it was satisfied with the responses."

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