Premiere Barnett will be left looking like a shag on one of the three new rocky outcrops, discovered recently in the Browse Basin, if he believes this will reopen the door to developing Browse LNG onshore at James Price Point.
The tide has gone out on this ship wreak and he will be stranded high and dry.
The option for floating has been agreed to by the Commonwealth and favoured by the Woodside consortium and Broome community.
James Price Point was found to be too expensive before and the new maritime boundary changes nothing.
Though the WA state could now own up to 2/3 of the Browse gas field the Premiere needs to use this new win fall to push for greater state revenues and ensure the Browse project goes ahead with full environmental protections the National Heritage of the West Kimberley.

Published in Broome Advertiser 28th May 2014