The Albanese government has approved an extension to 2070 of one of the world’s biggest gas export projects, saying it has agreed on conditions to protect more than one million pieces of ancient World Heritage-listed Indigenous rock art that sit near by.

Climate campaigners have described Woodside’s North West Shelf extension as a “carbon bomb” incompatible with global climate goals.

The federal environment minister, Murray Watt, proposed an approval for the project in May but his department had since been in talks with Woodside about conditions relating to nitrous oxide emissions. The detail of those conditions was not made public at the time.

The extension allows Woodside to keep operating its Karratha plant that processes and liquifies gas for export beyond 2030 and to 2070.

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