03 Oct Kimberley split over LNG (The Australian)
To the rock stars and fly-in fly-out personalities, it’s the latest cause celebre, but to Anthony Watson and his mother Agnes Albert, the battle over a proposed gas plant in the Kimberley goes much deeper. With family ties that stretch from the Jarlmadangah desert community south of Derby to the coastal Jabirr Jabirr lands – which takes in the West Australian government’s site for a multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas hub at James Price Point north of Broome for the Browse Basin field – Aboriginal groups see the project as a once-in-a-generation opportunity… go to article