Recent Guardian article shows the virtues of our impressive Kimberley Coast – and the need for its unified protection.
Tag Archives: Colin Barnett
What Compulsory Acquisition Really Means
December 11, 2013 – 9:53 am
An open letter explains that despite Premier Barnett’s latest rhetoric, his compulsory acquisition leaves very little chance for development at James Price Point.
Barnett Browse shift angers EPA
January 23, 2013 – 11:24 am
Daniel Mercer, The West AustralianUpdated December 27, 2012, 2:40 am WA’s environmental watchdog has accused the Barnett Government of undermining confidence in the State’s green approvals process by removing limits on carbon pollution from the proposed Browse LNG development. Environmental Protection Authority chairman Paul Vogel said lifting pollution conditions on the $40 billion […]
Gas saviour now a pipe dream for Premier Colin Barnett
January 15, 2013 – 4:04 pm
Premier Colin Barnett yesterday warned the multinational consortium behind the $40 billion gas hub at James Price Point that they ”don’t own” the gas riches off WA. by: John FlintFrom: The Sunday TimesJanuary 12, 2013 7:15PM Source: News Limited COLIN Barnett is desperately clinging to his dream of a $40 billion […]
New Action to Stop $35bn Gas Hub
November 19, 2012 – 4:36 pm
| Traditional owners are again trying to block the Woodside Project | by Graham Lloyd The Australian, 19th November, 2012 FRESH legal action has been launched to stop Woodside’s $35 billion gas hub project at James Price Point, near Broome, which has divided Aboriginal and community groups in Western Australia’s far north. […]
“Law Below the Top Soil” – Just Released
October 11, 2012 – 1:53 pm
Dr. Peter Botsman’s concise history of the flawed proposal to develop Browse Gas at James Price Point is now available publicly for the first time. Download it here.
Marine and National Park announcements in the Kimberley
October 24, 2010 – 9:39 am
The WA Premier Colin Barnett announced Friday the 22nd October proposals for marine parks in the North Kimberley, Camden Sound, Roebuck Bay and 80 mile beach, and a change in tenure for the Regent River nature reserve. Conservation groups have slammed the proposals as ‘claytons parks’ offering little real protection and as ‘greenwashing’ and a […]
Gas hub in doubt – ABC articles
August 27, 2010 – 9:37 am
Aboriginal Traditional Owners warn compulsory acquisition threatens Kimberley gas
T.O. Calls for Premier to Respect Country and Culture
June 29, 2010 – 7:15 pm
The following press release was provided by Traditional Owner and STK co-chair Neil McKenzie following ABC’s Four Corners program last week: FOUR CORNERS tonight focussed on how aborigines have responded to deals and Government pressure in the Kimberley to exploit resources offshore. Save the Kimberley co-chairperson and traditional owner of Yawuru-Jabirr Jabirr country, Neilo McKenzie, […]
FOUR CORNERS' "RUSH TO RICHES" AIRS JUNE 21st
June 20, 2010 – 10:41 am
ABC TV’s Four Corners returns to the Kimberley gas issue as the focus of their episode airing this Monday. Please see the show’s brief below. Rush to Riches Reporter Debbie Whitmont goes to the north-west coast of Western Australia to talk to the people at the centre of a bitter dispute over the location of […]
