Dead against it, pristine areas and needs to be left alone. Barnett needs to be shot for this.

Cheers
Dale

Prices Point is going to be ruined if it goes ahead - that whole peninsula north of Broome is such a special place.

They dont give a toss for the environment, more pristine areas bulldozed so Barnett and his crowd can rake in more dollars.

Same thing will happen with the coal mine down south regardless of the nimby's protesting.

Barnett already needed to be shot for bunch of stuff ;)

bunch of stupid Greenies. The companies which wanted to develop the gas fields had spent years and 10 of millions of dollars doing environmental studies before selecting sites that would have the least effect on the environment and the local people.
Then out of knowhere, pushed by a bunch of no knowledge NIMBYs and green politicians looking to keep their seats at the next election, Garrett decided that all developments would be put together in one spot and that he would ignore all the environmental studies and EPA reports that had been done previously.
The companies that want to develop the gas fields don't want to be at James Price Point, but they have been threatened by the government that if they don't they will lose their licences covering the gas fields.
It is like the idiots who decided that everything on the Burrup should be put on Maitland Estate - despite knowing that that area has a tendancy to get flooded if a large storm surge accompanies a cyclone.
It is all about supping to the minority to win the votes of the people who have no idea what is involved.

How much is enough when you lock up a region as big as 50% of Europe???

We have so bloody little of WA developed and the green freaks want to lock more up!
Yes it has impacts, MAN has impacts, either remove man from the planet or live with the impacts.

Look at the so called " original land protectors"...
60,000 years ago Australia was lush, green and had 20 x more animal species, then came the aboriginal peoples descendants, and FIRE! Fire changed the grass lands, the plains, the forest and destroyed 80% of the habitat. Same goes for NZ where hunting by Maori killed off many species and then when it became to hard to hunt, they burned off the forest to hunt by fire! Same goes for Christmas Islands, which where a tropical paradise reduced to a barren landscape by the quest for power, logs to move the massive stone carvings and hunting food. ( dam good national geographic doco on it. Look it up!)

They totally transformed the continent by scrub burning, hunting by fire storm and also taking out most of the large marsupials, so don’t tell me they lived in harmony with the land.
( go study the papers on the continental fauna and flora changes by man induced fire in Australia.

Australia needs development, and your resources no matter where they are, are going to have an impact on the planet. The task is to do it in a responsible manner, take out a reasonable portion of land and environment for nature conservation and business.

As for the wacky ad’s they portray the image that there is bugger all sanctuary and protective zones in WA’s north, bloody hell…..most of the Pilbara north west to far north Kimberly is either under some form of protection arrangement or to remote to be accessed by the average Joe unless he has $6000 per person to go on the luxury ecco cruises etc.

The gas plant must go somewhere, if you against it, start eating raw food and using a push bike to remove your need for gas and the carbon powered economy keeping you warm, happy and watching TV!

JMO views

Why don't they move the whole pland 10 k's or so inland and only have a jetty on the coast? They have to pump it hundreds of Ks to get it to land so whats another 10,

Its only the thin edge of the wedge, once one industry starts then it will be ok for the rest to come in and next thingyou know there will be dozens of wharves and more pollution than the rest of OZ puts out.

someone or group will say they don't like it.
We would all be able to be driving around in hydrogen vehicles now, or in the very near future. What a great way to cut back on greenhouse gases, but the greenies and NIMBYs don't want hydrogen stations in neighbourhoods.
It is like wind farms. They do have some environmental value, but no-one wants the wind turbines near their place.
Then there is the Kimberley tidal power plans. Sounds like a good renewable idea, but once again minority groups are saying they don't want it.

Go nuclear, if you ask me. Clean continuos energy, which is easy to manage to manage peaks and higher/lower demand. We might not be able to use nuclear waste now, but we might be able to in 10 or 20 years, so store it safely till then and start development. And at the end of the day, why I can’t have   AA size battery power cell plugged in my car and bit bigger for my house?  Because there is way too many people making living by protesting against nuclear energy for “some” reasons, even more people living of oil and gas production and consumption. It would make a lot of people unhappy if somebody showed up and said “I’ve got this mobile phone sized thingy and it will run whole suburb for 5 years or so..” That’s why there is so little money being put in development of new energy sources. We have to pump all the oil out and burn it firs and then we might thing about something else. But our planet will be buggered by then…

And also, governments don’t really want people to be energy independent. It’s much easier to put tax on litre of fuel than on wind or solar. So I guess they want us to thing that they are doing the right thing, but behind the closed door, it’s a different story.

But it might all be just my paranoia.

what to do with the waste) is that a nuclear plant has to be located near a big source of water. In Australia that means the ocean. Economics also means that the plant needs to be located near a major energy market. That means a city and no-one is going to allow a nuclear plant to be built near Perth.

It does not matter where they put it , folks will oppose it,,

A lot are hippys/greenie types,,we work so they don't have to, job creation are something they would not think about cause they have never had one,,

But putting it further inland for be a great idea,,

I will put it out there now, i work for woodside so take that as you will. Having visited James Price Point, there really isn't much there. I don't know exactly where the site will go so i am not aware of what access will be lost to the area etc.

All the recreation that happens out there is on the coast on the beach/headlands etc, The plant will be off the coast by a small margin i would think, so the actual area being lost would be only the loading facilities that would have a 500m exclusion zone so max of 1.5km of coastline you can now not use.

having lived in Karratha for a very long time you do get used to seeing a gas plant on the horizon. look at Cockburn sound? that is littered with plants along the whole coast but you all don't seem to mind. 51ha is all that is being used out of god knows how many millions of Ha of land there is.

Sorry but in ten years time you won't see the locals complaining when Woodside injects funds back into the community. Take Karratha for example, next week there is a new child care centre opening that woodside put 3 million towards, they also helped with attracting doctors and specialist to the region, school scolorships, after hours tutouring for the kids. It's not a bad thing people and it's clean energy not like coal or oil it's actually good for the environment, think about it as you stare at your PC.

We just have to keep groups with secret agendas out of the political decisions.

Good point about Cockburn Sound, thats my main fisdhing area and i don't take any notice of the industry that runs halfway along the place,,

up Karratha way.

we lost probably the best land based beach near Karratha when Pluto went ahead, a place i spent many weekends at fishing, camping and diving but i didn't cry foul over it i just went elsewhere, if fact having the gas plant there probably protects the place more because we can't get there to fish.

I just shake my head. I guess i'll just watch my back when i end up in Broome working at the plant residential, i'll be coming home in civvies and in my own car.

And where is Adele Carles on this? Jumping up and down at Marg's about a coal mine, but doesn't even give up a whimper on James Price Point. Get real lady, you talk the talk but hop around on one leg for the walk.

JMO

Cheers
Dale

Adele Carles ?

She is tied up with Troy at the moment,she will get back to you on that,,

hanging for a job up there been all round building gas plants but never broome. cant wait to earn the coin and fish the weekends up there should be good. all in all tho there will be that much red tape to go through  it will be more stringent than most gas plants in what it can and cant do.

Our prime sailfish ground is directly out from this area so it's a bit of an unknown what will happen to it when they start to dredge 18 million cubic metres of spoil to install the shipping channel, half of this spoil they at present have no idea where to put it. Surely there is deep water somewhere else that doesn't require that amount of dredging. That part of the coast is only about 14mtrs deep up to ten kilometres out.  All the talk at the moment is about one gas plant but what other industry will move in when its running and how much more of the coast will be destroyed by any expansion. As Marky said our businesses want it to happen but a large amount of long term residents don't want to see the town change from a tourism driven economy.

Personally I don't want it to happen but Colin Barnett is hell bent at any cost to see it happen. Woodside have bucket loads of money to throw around for anyone they affect but that won't be enough to compensate our lifestyle if they F#@k our fishery

the spoil is a good question for sure, shouldn't affect the sailfish too much as i'm sure your a little deeper for them, might be murky thats about the worst of it, they have dredged and dug out trenches for pipelines and no affects here, i still get good hauls of snapper in close.

You'll have channel markers to fish near, a pipline covered in rock that will become a long artificial reef, our pipelines here are a very popular spot for locals with snapper, reds, coral trout and others coming off them. I guess there isn't really any deep water near broome full stop along that coast and unfortunantly they have to be reasonably close to a major centre for travel and transfers.

One thing i would like to see is restrictions on times for the construction guys to come to town. thankfully being 60kms away they shouldn't be in town a whole lot like karratha, needless to say Saturday nights are when you avoid the pub as the boys can really let their hair down and carry on like clowns. I feel that if they get safety drummed into them so much at work they just leave site and do what they want with little consequence. Might be biased and this is a general view but i've seen some shocking behaviour by so called adults over the years here, shit my mrs was offered one night 600 dollars to go out in a boat with some guys topless and serve them beer all the while i'm right next to him as he asked.

Our Sailfish can be as close as 500metres from shore right along that coastline and out to about 20kms . Two options with the pipeline at the moment  either put it to the north and encase it with rock, or Woodsides prefered option is to trench through the middle of the sailfish grounds and bury it. They have no idea as to the effects this will have.

As you said and I know a few people in Karratha that say the same the unsavoury behavior of cashed up wankers out for a good time at the expense of others is one issue that needs to be sorted. This town is full of tourists for a large part of the year now so the last thing a lot of people here want is a bad reflection on the town due to that  issue.

indeed, we don't need any more idiots trying to whisper in the ears of a croc :)

I look forward to chasing some sails up there if all goes well in the next few years.

Bloody FIFO wankers. Now they are gonna prohibit alcohol in the Karratha airport. Too many drunken pricks flying out cant handle their piss.

it's not just a FIFO thing mate, toss in sports clubs tours, bikie gang trips and seven some tour package operations.

Trouble is ASTRALIA has become the land of the weak arm of the law and judges with too much soicial engineering books under their bums!
you behave in a rowdy or drunk way in the USA or Germany or any of the major first world countries and
A, you'd loose your job if you where in uniform
B, you'd spend the night in the lock-up
C, get a no-fly ban put on you
D, get fined a hell of a lot for minor offence and up to 6 months in real prison ( not these bloody holiday camps we have here in Aussie land)

Mate of mine in Florida has an employee that spent 2 weeks in a Southerns State jail for a minor drinking offence. He said it was the most scary time of his life, shotguns on all the guards, razor wire and a shoot to kill if you try to escape rule!!!! No thats what jail is ment to be, and toss in the boot-camps - chain gangs.

you act like a crim, get treated like a crim... NOT some bloody bogan hero.

And it's not about hanldy your p!ss, it's about handling your self image and respect to others that Australia has lost.