WA court’s blow to onshore Browse LNG hopes

WA court's blow to onshore Browse LNG hopes - Interfax Robert Sullivan | The WA Supreme Court's decision could push Woodside towards their FLNG or piped gas options. Western Australia's (WA's) Supreme Court has ruled the environmental approval for Woodside's proposed onshore Browse LNG project is illegal, dealing a further blow to WA premier Colin Barnett's plans for an onshore facility at James Price Point.Environmental advocacy group The Wilderness Society and Goolarabooloo elder Richard Hunter lodged an appeal against the decision after it emerged the report on the proposal by the state's environmental protection authority (EPA) had been prepared by just a single official, after four of the five EPA members assessing it were disqualified because of conflicts of interests. ...Although Woodside decided in April that an onshore facility at James Price Point for Browse would not be commercially feasible, the ruling appears to have compromised the WA premier's plans for an onshore gas hub on the Kimberly coast. The decision could also complicate the state government's attempts to purchase the land at the proposed project site to develop a supply base to service any future FLNG development of Browse.