Native title
James Price Point: Goolarabooloo to make separate claim
Joseph Roe’s Goolarabooloo group has lodged a separate native title claim over James Price Point.
Members of the group withdrew from the Jabirr-Jabirr native title group over gas hub differences.
Broome: Land transferred to Yawuru traditional owners
Brendon Grylls
The government has transferred 15 parcels of freehold land to the Yawuru people.
Under the terms of the transfer, the Yawuru people can either develop and keep the land, or sell it.
You can read a statement from Lands minister Brendon Grylls here:
Horizontal Falls: Chapple criticises Premier over copper project
Robin Chapple MLC
Robin Chapple MLC is critical of the Premier for failing to rule out a copper mine at the Horizontal Waterfalls.
You can read his media release here:
James Price Point: Woodside ‘not deterred’ by court ruling
Picture by Rod Hartvigsen
Woodside says it does not expect yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling to halt its works program at James Price Point.
Sydney Morning Herald [read this story]
You can see a full transcript of the Supreme Court decision if you click here.
James Price Point: Court ruling ‘will not affect’ gas hub plans
Picture by Rod Hartvigsen
Premier Colin Barnett says yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling will not affect plans to build a gas hub.
The Australian [read this story]
James Price Point: Compulsory acquisition threat declared ulawful
Phillip Roe outside the Supreme Court today. Photo: The Wilderness Society
Chief Justice Wayne Martin has declared the Premier’s compulsory acquisition notices for James Price Point to be unlawful.
“Any decisions made since the notices to take the Land at James Price Point and extinguish Native Title there, are also unlawful,” said lawyers for Goolarabooloo men Neil McKenzie and Phillip Roe, who mounted a supreme court challenge.
You can read a media release here: more »
James Price Point: New legal challenge
Picture by Rod Hartvigsen
Lawyers for Goolaroobooloo traditional owners are mounting a new challenge to the proposed gas hub.
They said works would disturb an important men’s initiation site.
Sydney Morning Herald [read this story]
A new analysis says Woodside’s Browse Basin gas project would now be more profitable if the gas was piped to the Pilbara for processing.
The Australian [read this story]
Horizontal Waterfalls: Copper mine ‘threat’ to tourism
(c) Martin Pritchard
Green groups say a proposed copper mine would ruin the Horizontal Waterfalls as a tourist attraction.
You can read a media release from Environs Kimberley here:
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