The federal government has stepped in to ensure an abandoned oil platform off the West Australian coast is kept in a safe condition after its owners went broke in July.
Government says taxpayer funds used will be recouped from industry, but green groups say it is another example of Australia's weak offshore decommissioning laws
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-23/government-pays-for-collapsed-oil-platform-cliff-head-wa/107187262?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
26 Comments
It seems like piss easy to require a bond for remediation costs. Why we have to do this dance?
Major oil and gas companies puppet to fund maintenance, safety of abandoned oil platform off West Australian coast.
Government funded? No, taxpayer funded. Let’s not pretend this isn’t what it is. Poor people and workers covering the arses of corporate responsibility. Yet where do these CEO’s holiday again?
[https://www.forbes.com.au/life/wellness/10-best-private-holiday-destinations-for-executives/](https://www.forbes.com.au/life/wellness/10-best-private-holiday-destinations-for-executives/)
[https://www.aol.com/10-places-billionaires-vacation-200041223.html](https://www.aol.com/10-places-billionaires-vacation-200041223.html)
Shame the never paid a cent in tax or resource royalty.
Taking the piss eh
it says “mothballed” but the point is its not in proper “care and maintenance” before its restarted or demolished.
mothballed implies a set and forget approach to preservation.
Owner went broke? Yeah right. I’m sure the owner has none of the billions in profit they made under that particular company name left anywhere on the planet. 100% they’re broke. Fuck our govt is weak as absolute piss, tax them nothing then clean up their mess
Privatise the profits, socialise the losses.
Can we not just sink it ?
Corporate Socialism. Privatise the gains, socialise the losses.
I’m guessing this same people are looking on changing the corpo name and start all over fresh with our money.
But agains cookers will go all the way to say akctuali is green energies the bad guys.
This is to stop me landing on it and making it my kingdom
I’m currently being hounded by the Australia Government to pay an outstanding 680.75
Fuck these fucking fuckers.
Remind me again why we are not taxing the hell out of Big Oil, Gas and Coal again?
That’s right. Because making billion dollar profits every quarter is enough money to tell the government what to do, rather than the government demand the corporations clean up their own damn mess.
Future generations deserve better governments. Tax the billionaires out of existence.
Do we not have laws for dumping industrial waste?
Why was there no plan for this *before* this oil platform approved by the government?
Australia produces 157 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year. Onshore gas generates $2.1 billion in state royalties and offshore gas generates $1.483 billion per year in federal royalties. And then we fund the cleanup when infrastructure is abandoned.
Qatar produces 183 billion cubic metres and generates US$38 billion (A$56 billion) in royalties per year.
Norway produces 124 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year. This contributes about NOK 700 billion (A$105 billion) into its sovereign wealth fund *per year*.
>green groups say it is another example of Australia’s weak offshore decommissioning laws
As far as I know we have pretty weak onshore decomissioning laws too
TAX THE GAS(and oil) to pay for the clean up costs
>Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (Cth) (2006 Act). The 2006 Act makes clear that titleholders are responsible for the full costs and safe removal of offshore oil and gas infrastructure.
I hope there’s some high up people going to prison at a minimum for defrauding the government like this.
>Over the next 50 years, Australia is expected to see USD40.5 billion in offshore decommissioning activity, primarily focused on well plugging and abandonment, as well as pipeline removal.
We better make damn sure we close whatever loophole they used to get out of it because we cannot afford to be stuck with the consequences.
Corporatise the profits, socialise the losses
Can we at least build a ~~Krusty Burger~~ Maccas there?
So they’re gonna raise taxes on the industry to cover it right? /s
Oh. Good to see where my nsw gst is going. WA government clean up .
‘Government says taxpayer funds used will be recouped from industry.’
Yeah given their fantastic track record that won’t be happening.
Someone somewhere is moaning about how a windmill costs the government money and is bad for the environment and completely ignoring stuff like this.
I’m trying to trace out this situation. Can someone more familiar explain to me what the hell happened with Triangle spinning out a new company a few months before going into administration? They seemed to form a whole new company and gave shares in that to their shareholders. It looks so unbelievably like pheonixing…