Alannah Mactiernan (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Well, the Browse Basin in the Kimberley—sorry, can I just explain that to you? The company, Woodside, decided that it did not want to proceed on that basis. It wanted to embrace the FLNG technology that had been successfully established by Shell on the Prelude project. In fact, to a very large extent, the thing was kept on life support to enhance the prospects of Premier Colin Barnett, who had, as per usual, nailed his mast to a sinking ship of the gas hub. In order to help him out, that project was kept on life support until after the state election and very shortly thereafter was ditched. There was nothing whatsoever to do with the EPBC Act. It was just completely and utterly irrelevant to that process. It was a case of moving on—

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