AAP General News (Australia)
12-22-2006
Fed: Heritage listing for Burrup site rejected
CANBERRA, Dec 22 AAP - 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.
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KEYWORD: BURRUP LEAD
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