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8 March 2002
Polluting Oil shale project
could face closure without government bail out.
Greenpeace
today called on the Australian Government not to bail out the controversial
Stuart Oil Shale Project in Queensland following reports that Project
developer Southern Pacific Petroleum (SPP) had asked the Government to
rescue it from a "cash crisis situation".
Greenpeace climate
campaigner Gareth Walton said:"The time has come for the Federal
Government to stop providing handouts to SPP." If oil shale is such
a good idea why aren't companies queuing up to replace SPP's former partner
Suncor, which withdrew from the Project last April?"
The Stuart Project is an attempt to extract oil from shale rock. Greenpeace
has been campaigning against the Project since 1998 because of its social
and environmental impacts, which include greenhouse emissions, dioxin
releases, air and water pollution and health impacts on local people.
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