Cyclone damage shuts Jadestone's Stag oil field off WA
The London-listed company may not have fully disclosed to the regulator the full extent of damage to its field off the Pilbara coast.
Darren Walsh was appointed the chair of WA's independent Environmental Protection Authority in October 2024.
The green light for Black Mountain Energy comes just months after Federal experts said its environmental risk assessment was "limited and disjointed" and reached "largely unsupported" conclusions.
The environmental watchdog is set to remove restrictions on climate pollution in months but is much slower looking into concerns about quarantine and turtles on the Barrow Island nature reserve.
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