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There is a new heavyweight in the ring ready for fisticuffs over plans to build a gas processing plant close to Broome. It’s former Federal Court judge Murray Wilcox QC, who has sat on dozens of historic cases and has long had an interest in human rights. Mr Wilcox, made last week an officer of […]

Spin, the Practice of presenting news or information in a way that creates a favourable impression. Rod Hartvigsen a well known Broome Photographer reports on the current situation and atmosphere in the Iconic Town. I speak to a lot of people on a weekly basis at the Broome Markets. Many are tourists visiting the town […]

THE SHELL OIL COMPANY has heavily backed environmentalists criticism of its Browse Basin partner, Woodside’s plants to build an LNG Facility onshore on the Kimberley Coast’s James Price Point, just north of Broome. Save The Kimberley spokesman, Kevin Blatchford, said the just released Shell draft environmental impact statement on its proposed Prelude Floating LNG Plant […]

Paddy Manning SMH August 29, 2009 WESTERN Australia’s pristine Kimberley Coast is under huge development pressure, and it’s not just the big liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facility proposed for James Price Point, 60 kilometres north of Broome.

The following report, released today, vindicates the position of Save The Kimberley, underlining the long term benefits to the nation – including jobs and revenue – when we conserve regions of outstanding national and global significance. Save The Kimberley calls for World Heritage status for the Kimberley, not turning large areas of this magnificent region […]

Solicitors from the Environmental Defender’s Office of WA are coming to Broome on 16 May to deliver a free environmental law workshop and advice clinic. Topics covered at the workshop will include: environmental assessment processes under Commonwealth and State law mining and petroleum law threatened species law and protected areas law.

If you listen to WA Premier Barnett and those sections of the media which are cheering his proposals on, you might think that the recent signing on James Price Point had any real substance or was the end of the matter. “Not so” says Joseph Roe: Traditional Owner and Custodian for the protection of the […]

The Kimberley Land Council (KLC) has signed off on an in-principle agreement to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) precinct near Broome. In a ceremony at the James Price Point site, 60km north of the tourist centre, federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson joined West Australian Premier Colin Barnett, Woodside chief Don Voelte and KLC chief […]

A new chapter in the growing struggle to keep the imposition of heavy industry across the Kimberley commenced on the weekend with the forming of the Sydney Chapter of Save The Kimberley. This begins the spanning of the continent and the start of the awareness group’s push into the large population centres on the east […]

SAVE THE KIMBERLEY predicts huge national and international opposition to the “indecent haste” of the WA Premier, Colin Barnett’s development plans for Australia’s Kimberley. Describing the Premier’s determination to bring Browse Basin gas onshore as “fatally flawed on many fronts”, chairperson of Save the Kimberley, Peter Tucker, described today’s progress report on his discussions with […]