anyone remember the Japanese walking off to the NT because the...

anyone remember the Japanese walking off to the NT because the previous LABOR government didn't have the balls?



ONE of the biggest private investments in Australian history was clinched yesterday when Japanese gas giant Inpex chose Darwin harbour as the site for a multi-billion-dollar LNG plant that will process eight million tonnes of gas piped from the Browse Basin off the northern West Australian coast.

The announcement that Inpex planned to pipe gas 850km across the Timor Sea in favour of processing the LNG at a hub in the Kimberley ended months of competition between the Northern Territory and Western Australia. The deal cements Darwin's status as a major industrial and commercial centre, but WA's loss was greeted with bitter disappointment by the Kimberley's Aboriginal Land Council, which had pinned its hopes on the plant as a way of out of poverty for remote-living indigenous people.

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West Australian Premier Colin Barnett said he was not surprised by Inpex's decision and labelled it an example of "appalling project management" by the state's former Labor government.

Source:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/top-end-wins-24bn-gas-plant/story-e6frg9ef-1111117598497