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SNE is "significant, controversial, and high-risk project": activist coalition

WOODSIDE Petroleum is facing increasing ire from green groups that say its SNE offshore oil project will damage human rights and gender equality in Senegal, threaten ecosystems in event of an oil spill, and is being developed at a time when fossil fuel use should be curbed to protect the climate.

 Map of SNE field. Image obtained: Woodside Energy.

Map of SNE field. Image obtained: Woodside Energy.

  The development is planned to be the first offshore oil development in the West African nation.   Catholic aid organisation Caritas, women's rights organisation ActionAid and economic justice group...

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