Climate Activists Scale 140-Metre Crane to Protest Woodside Petroleum

Greenpeace activists have long campaigned against a major gas project off the coast of Western Australia.

A supplied image shows a Greenpeace protest banner dropped from a crane next to the Woodside headquarters in Perth, Australia on Dec. 5, 2023. AAP Image/Supplied by Greenpeace

Activists associated with climate campaigner Greenpeace Australia scaled a 140-metre-high crane opposite oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum’s headquarters in Perth on Dec. 5. 

Once reaching the top of the crane just after 6 a.m., the four protestors unveiled a yellow 25-metre vertical banner reading “Stop Woodside.”