Underwater: Australia's oil industry faces new indigenous heritage test | Malay Mail

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MELBOURNE, Sept 7 — A discovery of ancient artefacts on the seabed off Australia's west coast has opened up a new frontier for resource companies to watch out for in conserving indigenous heritage. Archaeologists in July reported they had found hundreds of stone tools submerged off the Dampier...

Monday, 07 Sep 2020 07:20 AM MYT

The two sites are about 5 km east of where Woodside Petroleum, Australia's top independent gas producer, plans to build a pipeline connecting its Scarborough gas field to its Pluto gas plant on the Burrup Peninsula. Woodside has long worked with the Murujuga to preserve rock art sites near its North West Shelf and Pluto LNG plants on the Burrup Peninsula.

The company is talking to MAC about developing a cultural heritage management plan for Scarborough and a dredging and spoil disposal management plan, Woodside's spokeswoman said.

 

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