28th February 2013

Yesterday approval finally went through and the Monsoon Vine Thickets were listed as “Endangered” by the Australian Government, under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).

The thickets are a rainforest ecosystem and this listing means death to the Gas Hub. Despite corruption being fraught throughout the planning process with endangered bilbies, turtles, dinosaur footprints, the conflict of interest of 4 out of the 5 committee members of the Environment Planning Committee, this final approval has sealed Woodsides fate in their hope to build the worlds largest LNG gas processing hub on the pristine Kimberley Coast.

After years of our communities hard work in bringing to light the environmental and social impacts on Broome and the Kimberley, it seems that Woodside and Colin Barnett are trapped behind a remnant rainforest!