Woodside Statement on Activism

Woodside is building a lower-carbon business and we want to be part of an honest conversation about Australia’s energy needs now and into the future.

Unfortunately, in Australia there have been protest activities targeted at companies and in public spaces.

Woodside condemns unlawful acts that are intended to harm, threaten, intimidate or disrupt our employees or any other community members going about their daily lives.

These actions should be subject to the full force of the law.

So should actions that involve illegally entering the property of others, operational areas or offshore facilities.

It is misleading for activist groups to describe their activities as “harmless”. Recent incidents have had deliberate direct impacts on people and posed risks to community safety, with a range of harmful consequences.

Such actions are a burden on the emergency services whose job it is to keep us safe and unnecessarily impact the everyday lives of Western Australians. They merely serve as a distraction from the global challenge of decarbonisation.

Woodside fully supports respectful debate, including in relation to complex challenges like climate change.