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In short:

Environmental groups are calling for tighter regulations around decommissioning oil and gas fields after energy giant Woodside shed hundreds of kilograms of plastic into the ocean.

Documents reveal the company knowingly continued to shed plastic without implementing risk controls for almost two months before notifying the offshore regulator.

What's next?

A Victorian parliamentary inquiry into the decommissioning of oil and gas infrastructure is expected to be handed down in March 2026.

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Shareholders need to be held accountable.

A Victorian parliamentary inquiry

I know that it means "from the Australian state Victoria", but I'm still picturing them as a bunch of religious fundamentalists more scandalized by the bawdy humor and exposed arms at the sites than the appalling pollution ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Pollution industry pollutes, but for some reason I don't think this will even register as a nail in their coffin.