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Australian Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell has turned down
an application for emergency heritage listing of the Burrup Peninsula
rock art site, which is under threat from a major gas installation.
Senator Campbell said that while he regarded the site extremely
significant, he did not believe the threat was sufficient to warrant
emergency listing. The application was made by Australian Greens
senator Rachel Siewert, Labor MP Carmen Lawrence and independent MP
Peter Andren.
The Burrup site contains hundreds of thousands of rock carvings,
said to date back thousands of years. Woodside Energy Pty Ltd wants
to build an onshore facility for its Pluto liquified natural gas
project. The National Trust of Australia says the Burrup site, in
north-west Australia, contains one of the world's largest and most
important collections of petroglyphs. It says the collection of
standing stones may be the largest in the world. "On the basis of
evidence presented to me, which includes advice from the Australian
Heritage Council, I do not consider that the perceived threat to
national heritage values of the area warrants an emergency heritage
listing," Senator Campbell said in a statement.
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