A view form Wales:
I think this might be a bit of over dramatisation.
In particular LNG terminals can be quite unobtrusive - we have one here in the
Pembrokeshire National Park in the Milford Haven Waterway (all protected and
environmentally sensitive) and while there are a number of valid objections to
it on safety grounds etc now it is up and running it is on balance much cleaner
and less of a pollution risk than oil jetties and refineries. (We have first
hand experience here of the latter with the Sea Empress disaster) There also
may not be "thousands" of ships - each ship carries an awful lot of LNG. And
while the installation of the pipeline caused some disruption, now you would
not know it was there.
However I have to agree that I would hate to see Broome turned into yet another
mining town - apart form anything else, the area is an important tourism
resource which would be completely lost if its character changed.
Rosemary
Wales
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