Meanwhile, in Australia, the Japanese gas giant INPEX admitted it may have oopsied on reporting exactly how much toxic, cancer-causing benzene is emitted from its Icthys LNG plant in Darwin.

In actual fact, it’s been reported INPEX underreported its toxic emissions by 13,000 per cent. That’s not a typo. To give a sense of the scale, it’s like telling the bank in your loan application that you have a $10,000 credit card debt, when you actually have $1.3 million in credit card debt. Only imagine the credit card debt is cancer-causing benzene INPEX emitted into in the atmosphere around four kilometres from Darwin CBD. Whoopsie daisy!

— Ebony Bennett

Australian government response? Let’s have an “immediate investigation” to evaluate if regulatory action is required.

Well that is pretty flipping decisive. Sending a strong message to the gas industry that it can fuck around and not find out.

Full reporting from the Australia Institute here.