Woodside Energy Group Ltd. said activists trespassed at the home of Chief Executive Officer Meg O’Neill on Tuesday, in an apparent escalation of protests over a natural gas project.
(Bloomberg) — Woodside Energy Group Ltd. said activists trespassed at the home of Chief Executive Officer Meg O’Neill on Tuesday, in an apparent escalation of protests over a natural gas project.
The protesters were accompanied by camera crews when they went to the Western Australia house where O’Neill and her family reside, the company said in a statement. Police have arrested two men ages 31 and 34 and a 19-year-old woman in connection with the incident, the Australian Associated Press reported.
Woodside is developing the $12 billion Scarborough project, which would drill gas offshore and process it at an expanded plant on the Burrup peninsula in Western Australia. The project has been criticized by environmentalists for its emissions, and because of its proximity to the Murujuga Cultural Landscape, home to more than one million pieces of ancient Aboriginal rock art.
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