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A Woodside report promised thousands of Browse jobs. New analysis tells another story
By Holly Thompson
A report commissioned by oil-and-gas giant Woodside has exaggerated the economic benefits of its Browse to North West Shelf gas project including overinflating the number of jobs it will create, according to a not-for-profit research group.
Climate Integrity published its own analysis of the Deloitte report on Thursday, finding it was “rosy” at best and claiming it was commissioned to paint the project in a positive light as the government’s decision on environmental approvals looms.
Climate Integrity’s analysis claimed the commissioned report inflated the economic benefits of the project, including “cherry-picking” job figures while ignoring job destruction in farming and manufacturing.
Woodside previously stated the Browse project would create nearly 4800 jobs.
The new analysis claims this figure referred only to a single peak year and that the average over the project’s 47-year life was 1388 net jobs, less than a third of the headline figure.