“I can appreciate the problem you are confronted with in trying to protect the pristine nature of the Kimberley Coast from the impacts of industrial development. The greatest threat is not necessarily from the initial LNG facilities but rather the longer term cumulative impacts of the associated developments”

(David R. Klein, Professor Emeritus Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska)

The flow-on impacts of the Kimberley gas developments, should they proceed in their current form, are not just the issue of the gas plants themselves.  Their impact, when examined in isolation, appears small: about 340 hectares initially for each gas plant.

Analysis of the overall gas plant footprint and the associated mining and large-scale industrialisation of the Kimberley however, reveals a very different impact picture.