Lawsuit targets US Ex-Im LNG fossil fuel project threatening Great Barrier Reef

(Pacific Environment, San Francisco, 13 December 2012) Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s nearly $3 billion in financing for a massive Australian fossil fuel facility in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Construction and operation of the liquefied natural gas facility will threaten sea turtles, dugongs and many other protected marine species, as well as the Great Barrier Reef itself.