Australia's north-west reefs teem with life - but they are also at the centre of a massive fossil fuel expansion

Woodside's designs on the country's largest untapped gas basin around Scott Reef are, some say, just another example of fossil fuel companies getting their way in what has become a petrostateGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia's next wave of fossil fuel expansion is planned for environments far from where most people will ever see it. Places like Scott Reef.Once part of an interconnected coral ecosystem that rivalled the Great Barrier Reef in scale, Scott Reef now sits in a remnant group of atolls near the edge of the Australian continental shelf, nearly 300km from its sparsely populated north-west coast. Continue reading...