Stipe777,You have left out one important connection, Sinosteel...

Stipe777,

You have left out one important connection, Sinosteel were part of the Yilgarn consortium and had their Midwest project to develop which required rail and port, it was their connection that got the Chinese funding for the bid, add to that Chinese backed Karara mine and justification for them was easy at the time.

Also my recollection was it was WA Labour that gave it to OPR not Barnett, he has since been trying to make it work knowing it went to the wrong bidder.

Had Yilgarn secured the mandate this thread would not be happening as it would have been built at China's expense!!!