Analysts claim that Resources Minister Madeleine King’s refusal to rule out requiring Shell’s massive Prelude floating LNG project off the north-west coast to feed the domestic gas market is absurd.
The project’s costs would be greatly increased if the remote plant, which is located 200 kilometres off the coast of Kimberley and contains the largest man-made floating structure in the world and is not connected to a mainland gas pipeline system, were subject to the 20% domestic supply requirement in Labor’s proposed gas reservation.
