Since November last year, five consecutive passes by the Tanager-1 satellite have detected huge methane clouds emerging from the industrial complex.
The most recent posted an emissions rate of 7.8 tonnes of methane an hour near Gorgon's acid gas removal units, making it the highest methane emitter in WA.
Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and responsible for about 25 per cent of global warming.
At some point there's often regulation that just hasn't been fully enforced or the dangers less obvious and then regulation implemented.
The danger LLMs could pose in the wrong hands are more immediate and obvious ... very much like bullets and guns which are tightly regulated here. Misbehaviour via a LLM can have far reaching and near immediate costly outcomes and further implications for individual finances.
I know at some point that it will be said the reaction here is unfair, but at some point the three and four letter agencies around the world are going to be working to limit the type of work LLMs do.
As for the open pit mines ... yeah I'm not a fan but a necessary evil - coal especially until something drastically changes ...
Being the Australian government it will likely just end being some poorly thought out and bone headed ideas that mostly just making life more annoying or restrictive for normal law abiding citizens while doing nothing much to stop or deter criminals or big business from largely getting away with doing whatever they want and absolving themselves of most responsibility.
This has nothing to do with reducing harm, it's to hand the far-left Labor government power to censor criticism of its Marxist policies.
What about other companies that fail to prevent harm?
What are "reasonable steps"?
Are Australian mining companies taking reasonable steps to prevent harm to the environment and thus the people of Australia? For example.
It's true, Australia is very bad at pulling US and Indian companies into line.
eg: methane release at Chevron's Gorgon gas project - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-27/wa-regulators-investi...
At some point there's often regulation that just hasn't been fully enforced or the dangers less obvious and then regulation implemented.
The danger LLMs could pose in the wrong hands are more immediate and obvious ... very much like bullets and guns which are tightly regulated here. Misbehaviour via a LLM can have far reaching and near immediate costly outcomes and further implications for individual finances.
I know at some point that it will be said the reaction here is unfair, but at some point the three and four letter agencies around the world are going to be working to limit the type of work LLMs do.
As for the open pit mines ... yeah I'm not a fan but a necessary evil - coal especially until something drastically changes ...
Being the Australian government it will likely just end being some poorly thought out and bone headed ideas that mostly just making life more annoying or restrictive for normal law abiding citizens while doing nothing much to stop or deter criminals or big business from largely getting away with doing whatever they want and absolving themselves of most responsibility.