Stop UWA partnering in extreme fossil fuel production

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Western Australia’s most prestigious university has been strongly criticised for a partnership with the state’s biggest polluters, aimed at supporting extreme and remote oil and gas developments previously out of reach with existing technology.

The Centre for Long Subsea Tiebacks is a new partnership between UWA, Woodside and Chevron supported by the WA Government. The partnership would aid plans to develop new remote gas fields like the Browse Basin and Scarborough fields that would produce around four times the pollution of the Adani coal project.

“This partnership is deeply irresponsible and its aims profoundly dangerous for humanity. Globally ...

Western Australia’s most prestigious university has been strongly criticised for a partnership with the state’s biggest polluters, aimed at supporting extreme and remote oil and gas developments previously out of reach with existing technology.

The Centre for Long Subsea Tiebacks is a new partnership between UWA, Woodside and Chevron supported by the WA Government. The partnership would aid plans to develop new remote gas fields like the Browse Basin and Scarborough fields that would produce around four times the pollution of the Adani coal project.

“This partnership is deeply irresponsible and its aims profoundly dangerous for humanity. Globally, we are fighting for our lives to keep carbon in the ground - the very last thing we need is new technology to extract even more carbon that would further accelerate the climate crisis.” Piers Verstegen, Director Conservation Council of Western Australia

The UN has said the use of fossil fuels already in production will far exceed safe limits, and this year, natural gas use has taken over from coal as the biggest contributor to global growth in carbon emissions. Despite this, the UWA partnership aims to develop yet more ‘unburnable’ carbon.

If the partnership goes ahead, it will directly aid the development of extreme and remote fossil fuel deposits globally, ensuring that global temperatures are pushed far beyond safe levels.

Ask the UWA Chancellor to abandon the partnership with WA’s biggest polluters and instead focus on developing WA’s world class renewable energy potential.

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Dear UWA Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and Senate

I am deeply concerned by the proposed new partnership between UWA and Western Australia’s biggest carbon polluters, aimed at developing new technology to exploit previously inaccessible oil and gas resources.

The UN has said the use of fossil fuels already in production will far exceed safe limits [1], and this year, natural gas use has taken over from coal [2] as the biggest contributor to growth in global carbon emissions. Despite this, the UWA partnership aims to develop yet more ‘unburnable’ carbon.

The development of yet more oil and gas reserves is unconscionable in this time of climate crisis, and it is deeply irresponsible for WA’s most respected university to host a project that would enable this. Instead, the university must pursue partnerships and research on clean, renewable energy solutions that WA has the potential to lead in.

UWA does not accept funding from tobacco companies and I urge that the same approach now be taken with fossil fuel companies such as Woodside and Chevron. Just like tobacco, these companies sell products that are profoundly dangerous and unnecessary. I urge UWA to immediately rethink the research partnership and its policy towards accepting research funding from fossil fuel companies.

[1] http://productiongap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Production-Gap-Report-2019.pdf
[2] https://news.yahoo.com/natural-gas-drives-record-co2-emissions-2019-000644500.html

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