Posted by John Donovan; 9 January 2025
Here we go again. Shell, the global grandmaster of environmental destruction and corporate greed, has announced its latest scheme to exploit every corner of the planet it can. This time, it’s the $2.5 billion Crux gas field development off the coast of Australia. Shell’s plan? Tie Crux to its controversial Prelude floating LNG facility—because nothing says “environmental responsibility” like doubling down on a project already plagued by scandal and whistleblower revelations
Prelude: A Titanic Disaster in the Making
Let’s talk about Prelude, Shell’s floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility and an engineering marvel only in the sense that it’s marvelously terrible. Costing an estimated $17 billion, Prelude has been a never-ending nightmare of technical failures, environmental risks, and skyrocketing costs. Whistleblower Irina Woodhead, who exposed safety concerns at Prelude, described its operations as so unsafe that a catastrophic incident seemed inevitable. But why let pesky things like safety and ethics get in the way of profit?
Instead of addressing these issues, Shell is doubling down by pumping more gas from the Crux field directly into Prelude. The company submitted its Environment Plan to Australia’s offshore regulator, NOPSEMA, for the Crux development, targeting first gas by 2027.Because when your existing facility is a safety...
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