Woodside vs the Planet

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Why is Australia doubling down on fossil fuels?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The world may have committed at Paris to hold back dangerous climate change but Australia's fossil-fuel giant Woodside is doubling down: it has bold new plans to keep producing gas out to 2070. Support from the major parties is locked in so something has to give.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This is a story of power and influence pollution and protest. How does one company capture a country? How convincing is Woodside's argument that gas is a necessary transition fuel as the world decarbonises? And what is the new energy realism narrative being pushed by Trump's White House?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In this engrossing essay Marian Wilkinson reveals the ways of corporate power and investigates the new face of resistance and disruption. The stakes could not be higher.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The gas companies and the Labor governments in WA and Canberra had refined their defence: the gas industry was helping the world decarbonise curbing its emissions and providing energy security. It sounded like the planet could hardly have a better friend than Australia's LNG industry and companies like Woodside. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>-Marian Wilkinson <em>Woodside vs the Planet</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This issue contains correspondence relating to </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Hard New World</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> by Hugh White from Lachlan Harris Emma Shortis Ali Wyne James Curran Susannah Patton Mark Edele Brendan Taylor Clive Edwards and Hugh White.</em></p>