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May 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda West Australian Premier Colin Barnett should leave the proponents of the $30 billion Browse gas hub to make their own decisions and stop upsetting investors, the Labor opposition says.
Mr Barnett has long favoured an undeveloped site at James Price Point, north of Broome in the environmentally significant Kimberley region, for the proposed Woodside-operated Browse gas processing hub.
The site is opposed by conservationists, who say the new gas hub should be added to Woodside’s existing North West Shelf plant.
On Thursday, Mr Barnett said it was “not a private decision” but “a government decision”.
Labor leader Mark McGowan on Friday said the premier should stay out of commercial matters because the Browse project’s joint venture partners, including the world’s biggest miner BHP Billiton, did not appreciate the interference.
“I know that the investment community in Western Australia, the business community, has a great deal of disquiet about the premier’s behaviour in relation to this matter,” Mr McGowan told reporters.
He stopped short of saying state government intervention represented sovereign risk, but international companies seeking to invest in WA would take a dim view of Mr Barnett’s comments.
“I don’t think there is any role for the premier of Western Australia to be interfering in commercial arrangements.
“It sends a very poor message to overseas investors.
“We don’t need interventionism, Soviet-style interventionism, by the premier.”
Mr McGowan said he was concerned about how the project was progressing.
“The Oakajee (port) project has been derailed by the premier’s interventionism.
“When governments involve themselves in commercial decision making, it is a slippery slope to disaster.”
The state government was recently forced to resubmit documentation for the compulsory acquisition of land for the Browse gas hub after the paperwork was deemed invalid.
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