Woodside's Illegal Road Works On Manari Road south of James Price Poin

What needs to be made clear in this video is the fact that the Broome Shire grader had just completed grading the road. What you are witnessing is Woodside using their equipment and undertaking their own road works which is highly illegal, hazardous and they should be prosecuted either by the Broome Shire Council and or the Department of Main Roads. This work was done in order to create a deep dangerous sandy pit, forcing people to slow down or spin out. This allows time for hostiles (Lockforce) Woodside corporate security thugs enough time to record number plates and photograph people who in travelling in Country.



What needs to be made clear in this video is the fact that the Broome Shire grader had just completed grading the road. What you are witnessing is Woodside using their equipment and undertaking their own road works which is highly illegal and should be prosecution either by the Broome Shire Council and or the Department of Main Roads. This work was done in order to create a deep dangerous sandy pit, force people to slow down or spin out. This allows time for hostiles (Lockforce) Woodside coporate security thugs enough time to record number plates and photograph people who in travelling in Country.
Woodside are not in accordance with a duly signed and sealed Instrument of Authorisation by the Commissioner of Main Roads to undertake roadwork’s, on public roads in Western Australia,

Any person or party intending to undertake an event or conduct works that may impact on traffic (including pedestrian traffic) within any part of the road reserve shall, as a condition of approval by Main Roads WA, Local Government or any other authority responsible for the road, ensure that the person performing the tasks contained in Table 4 - Main Roads' Traffic Management of Works on Roads Code of Practice hold a relevant and current traffic management certificate of accreditation.

Main Roads WA certificate and proof of certification is provided in the form of a 'Photo ID' card is issued for each category of accreditation to individuals who successfully meet the pre-requisites applicable for each level of accreditation.

Woodside did not have the necessary approvals to undertake these road works.

This roadwork was not approved by an Authorised Body nor was a MRWA approval obtained.

Woodside does not have a Traffic Management Plan for these road works.

This particular section on Manari Road is not located safely with respect to horzontal and vertical alignment. There was no signing and delineation erected to cater for this?

The transitions from the existing road to the roadworks were not safe or clearly laid out.

No speed limits were established on-site consistent with the modified road environment
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The worksite was not clearly defined or appropriately separate from passing traffic.

The travel paths for both directions of traffic were not clearly defined.

No “Reduce Speed” signs located in accordance with the TMR Code of Practice
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No “repeater” speed limit signs that should be erected in accordance with AS 1742.3.

No signs or devices were placed in such that they are clearly visible to approaching drivers and other.

No sign of temporary hazard markers (T5-4 and T5-5) aligned and spaced to comply with the
requirements of AS 1742.3.

No variable message signs (VMS) used compliant with the requirements of AS 1742.3

The clearances from the worksite were not consistent with the requirements of AS 1742.3

No Traffic Controllers on the worksite so no accredited, suitably attired and correctly
positioned relative to sight distance and the “Prepare to Stop” signs.

Fling Open The Doors & Let The Truth Come in, for James Price Point

The latest weekly update from the darkside (attached) gives more cause for celebration, as do reports from Walmadan and Manari Road: "Geotechnical operations have ceased and crews are demobilising. Equipment is being removed and the site is being made safe for anticipated rain and high winds."

EK points out, interesting that this is happening before the geotechnical surveys have been completed. Even more delays - well done Protectors!

http://www.broome.wa.gov.au/council/pdf/agenda/2011/20111214.pdf
9.4.8 REPORT RELATING TO THE STATUS OF COMPLIANCE BY WOODSIDE ON LOT 259,
JAMES PRICE POINT, DAMPIER PENINSULA

This item will be discussion in section 14, Matters Behind Closed Doors.
Saturday's rally and celebration should have made it clear to the Shire that this is an issue of great interest and concern to the community. If the Shire is serious about it's "Priority Statement" that

“ Council will strive to create an environment where local governance is delivered in an open and accountable manner; where we provide leadership to the region in such areas as planning and financial management; where the community has the opportunity to contribute to the Council's decision making thereby fostering ownership of strategies and initiatives"

Given the fact that it was members of the Broome Community who first drew the Shire's attention to all of the illegal activities undertaken by Woodside and non compliance with Planning Approvals, activities that Woodside has carried out in Country without the appropriate planning approvals. It is only right that these complaints are aired in open public discussion.

It was the Kimberley Protectors and the Walmadan Camp residents who had gathered all the evidence. They have been monitoring and recording Woodside's daily illegal activities for months and raised the issue of the tower being used for communications and not just for weather research, as their Shire Approval states.

It was the Broome community who covered the costs for all the aerial evidence. Woodside and the Shire have to answer to the community. How is it possible for a Shire Planning Approval to have three, not two but three conflicting dates on a Planning Approval?

Anyway, after lots of complaints to the Shire today by concerned residents the Shire has now put the details of the confidential matter on Woodside on the Shire web apart from the legal advice they've received. However, they are still planning to discuss the matter behind closed doors. This is just not good enough and the Broome Community NO GAS will be attending in numbers to put the heat on the Shire and Woodside tomorrow at 5pm.

Decision may give Woodside excuse to ditch plan

PUBLISHED: 15 HOURS 50 MINUTES AGO | UPDATE: 13 HOURS 11 MINUTES AGO

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The vision of an LNG export hub on the Kimberley coast, held dear by former Woodside boss Don Voelte and WA Premier Colin Barnett, is looking as if it might remain just that, a vision.

STATEMENT ON 6/12/2011 FROM CHALK AND FITZGERALD AND THE PLAINTIFFS

Neil McKenzie and Phillip Roe from Broome on the Dampier Peninsula, in The Kimberley on hearing news of the decision by Chief Justice Wayne Martin that the compulsory acquisition notices issued by Premier Barnett’s government are unlawful and any decisions made since the notices to take the Land at James Price Point and extinguish Native Title there, are also unlawful.

“This decision is a step towards the protection of part of a song cycle of immense cultural importance.

“As a legal case, the Court decision is important for all people who own properties in WA.

“In a true sense, it is a Castle moment where the Court and the Law stand as the guarantee for the rights of ordinary people in the face of huge political power and economic resources,” said Andrew Chalk, lawyer for the plaintiffs.

All people who have Land taken by a Government, need security. The Court says whilst the Government does have the power to take these rights away, it can only do it on the terms laid down by the Parliament.

In the present case, the Government issued notices covering a larger area than that which was required. This is something the Court decided was not allowed. The Land Administration Act requires the Minister to issue a notice that contains a clear description of what they want.

Description of the land that is required and Notices in this case, didn’t comply with that requirement.

“All law is a technicality but it’s also the only guarantee of people’s rights.

“The agreement which was negotiated with Woodside was done entirely in the shadow of the threat of compulsory acquisition, Those voting on that matter were told that if they didn’t agree to the proposal the Government would take the Land anyway,

“There are world class values at this site that will be trampled on without due consideration.

Mr Chalk says the deal struck to surrender the Native Title is now ineffective in light of the decision “it’s now a paperweight in light of this decision.”

“It’s back to square one as far as obtaining the rights to James Price Point and beyond.

“The records from the 80s and 90s clearly show that much of the proposed gas precinct would need digging up and thus they would need to destroy a large part of the site in order to build their precinct. It’s massive. Kilometres long and wide.

Mr Chalk said the Senior Custodian for this area “ has never shifted his option on the importance of this area.”

“He has been consistent. It is a position he’s inherited from his grandfather Paddy Roe who was equally determined to protect the significant heritage. What’s rare here, is it’s all been documented by anthopologists and the Government but then ignored by the State Government.

“It’s an important judgement, good judgement important not just for aboriginal people but any property owner in west Australian. It means the state can’t take your land without telling you what it is they’re going to take.

Goolarabooloo traditional custodian, Joseph Roe in response to the decision said from Broome:

“This is an opportunity for the Government and the gas companies Shell, BHP, BP, Chevron and of course, Woodside – to reconsider where they process Browse Basin

“If this gas precinct goes ahead our cultural heritage will be destroyed .in fact anywhere along the coast here on the Dampier Peninsula.

“This is something that those with cultural responsibility have been telling the Government and Woodside since 2005. And, much longer than that. In the Courts before now..

“It’s a songline that connects the people to their Country.
“It carries the law.

“It carries their understanding of the Cosmos in the form of song and ceremony.

“And relates it to places all along that Coast.”

Andrew Chalk explained that “The critical heritage approvals have not been given and will be subject to further proceedings and the heritage that is most critical here is the song cycle but which has been ignored throughout the process to date.

“We have written on behalf of the senior custodian to Woodside providing clear details about the location of that site. The real question is why Woodside has not been provided with these details by the State Government and KLC who have known the location of the song cycle in that area for 20 years.

It is misleading because the most critical bit of information has not been disclosed to the Federal Government. By the State and the KLC – the bodies charged with advising the Commonwealth on the significance of the area (as part of that Strategic Assessment Process). The Federal Government has received the draft report from WA and invited comments.

Implicit in the Chief Justice’s judgement is that as much as politician and companies might like to take short cuts, they can’t, it’s unlawful.

It’s not for Native Title claim groups or companies or even the Government to put themselves outside the operation of the Aboriginal Heritage Act. Its purpose is to protect the sites wherever they are, whatever anyone says. If they are a site, they are protected.

As Goolarabooloo traditional custodian Joseph Roe has said earlier this year: “They have been asking the wrong people.”

Traditional land owners have court victory : World News Australia on SBS

Traditional land owners have court victory : World News Australia on SBS: Traditional land owners have won a technical victory after a court ordered that compulsory acquisition notices issued by the West Australian government regarding a proposed gas hub in the Kimberley were unlawful.
Traditional land owners have won a technical victory after a court ordered that compulsory acquisition notices issued by the West Australian government regarding a proposed gas hub in the Kimberley were unlawful.

IS IT A CYCLONE OR JUST A GAIL? At James Price Point

The WA government has strongly denied traditional owners' claims they are being forced off a camp ground near a proposed gas precinct.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/radio/episode/194487/WA-government-denies-protestors-asked-to-leave-camp

THAT IS NOT WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE DEVELOPMENT SAID TO THE ABC ON TUESDAY
Protesters at possible danger from cyclones - ABC Kimberley WA - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Department of State Development is overseeing the gas hub project and it's deputy director general, Gail McGowan, has confirmed the camps are illegal.

"Certainly, establishing permanent facilities is clearly prohibited under the legislation," she said. For the first time the Government is considering forcing the campers out. Ms McGowan says the next steps are being considered.

"The relevant government agencies are working together on the issue, certainly with a mind to the cyclone season approaching, and also considering the impact on other resources, and looking at whether any addition action is needed," she said.


Redhand received information earlier this week that several government agencies met in Perth a couple of weeks ago and the main item on their agenda was how they were going to deal with the protestors embedded in Country, at James Price Point.

Well, if these government public servants are actually paid to think and come up with solid strategies as to how to address the very annoying issue of these protectors than Redhand would like to suggest that if their premise is cyclones and concern for people’s well - being than maybe having a cyclone in the vicinity at the time would be far more convincing that their intentions were virtuous.


People can see exactly what the game is, give us a break.!

But the question remains begging, why are they considering building the world’s second largest gas refineries in a cyclonic location? Does anyone remember that last year in November 2010, Woodside Petroleum had to rebuild several flare towers used to burn off waste gas because they did not meet design requirements to withstand expected wind speeds.

The costs for its Pluto liquefied natural gas (LNG) project blew out by $900 million and took another six months to begin production while it rebuilt equipment that fell short of design specifications.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/business/woodside-delays-start-of-pluto-as-costs-soar-20101130-18efm.html#ixzz1fN2XrIEc

Paddle Past Price Point - show your support in Saving the Kimberley

Paddle Past Price Point - show your support in Saving the Kimberley

Everyone is invited to join in on a paddle (kayak,canoe,ski,paddle board etc)
The plan is to meet in Broome (Visitor Centre carpark) at 5.30am (early I know but we need to catch the tide) Then drive in convoy to 10km north of JPP. Launch at 8am and paddle south (10km) to James Price Point. At about 10am we'll come ashore at the Point on the high tide. A support boat will be there. Grab your paddle and join us on this floating adventure! Let's see if we can have a get together on Friday (9th) in the afternoon to discuss the paddle. Call me on 0438800165 Shayne

Dinosaurs, Bilbies and now the Whales are proving that Woodside's studies around James Price Point are again totally inadequate and contemptible.

Kimberley Whale Watching has just completed two extended boat surveys from Broome to Camden Sound, Adele Island and the Lacepede Islands. The highest concentration of whales was recorded between the Lacepede Islands and Broome.

Tables showing sightings from our 2011 Cetacean Survey. Icons are coloured to represent different surveys (yellow 2010, red aerial survey 2010, blue July 2011 and magenta August 2011).




Please contact Richard Costin on 0439 691194 or 08 9192 7162 if you'd like any further information.

kimberleywhales@bigpond.com
www.kimberleywhales.com.au
www.kimberleystockphotos.com.au

Residents question Woodside filming their movements - ABC Kimberley WA - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Residents question Woodside filming their movements - ABC Kimberley WA - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Lateline - 25/05/2011: Woodside accused of intimidating locals
ERIN PARKE, REPORTER: This footage was taken by a worried Broome resident near James Price Point. It shows a man with a camera filming people,

Lateline - 25/05/2011: Woodside accused of intimidating locals

Secrecy is the problem, not leakers - Opinion - The Sofia Echo

Secrecy is the problem, not leakers - Opinion - The Sofia Echo

Mainstream journalism stands accused of failing to be critical enough of those in authority. Over the economic crash of 2007 and over intelligence and the Iraq war, it failed to challenge the conventional wisdom. It was not a conspiracy or a failure of resource. It was because journalism can be too responsible, balanced and passive. Sometimes journalism needs to be disruptive, critical and even partial.

Woodside denies pipeline proposal - Upstream Online

Woodside denies pipeline proposal - Upstream Online

Marching on: Woodside said it FLNG was its preferred development choice despite Timor-Leste's wishes to process the gas onshore

22 killed in Mexican pipeline explosion - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

22 killed in Mexican pipeline explosion - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Government condemned for release of ‘half-baked’ Kimberley gas hub report

http://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/government-condemned-for-release-of-2018half-baked2019-kimberley-gas-hub-report

MEDIA RELEASE
Monday 13 December 2010

Release timed to coincide with Chrismtas/New year holiday period

The Wilderness Society has condemned today’s release by the WA government of an incomplete and deeply flawed draft ‘Strategic Assessment Report’ (SAR) for the Premier’s proposed massive LNG plant at James Price Point near Broome. The draft SAR was jointly commissioned by the WA and Commonwealth Governments in 2008 through a formal ‘bilateral’ agreement between the two governments.

WOODSIDE’S ANNUAL INVESTOR UPDATE

http://www.woodside.com.au/NR/rdonlyres/64B460A1-D99C-4EBD-A318-8232C336D904/0/ASX056AnnualInvestorUpdate.pdf

Browse

The project remains on track to enter FEED in early 2011 and to be in a position to take a Final

Investment Decision by mid 2012, as required by the retention lease conditions. These conditions were accepted by each of the Browse Joint Venture participants in December 2009.

The Basis of Design (BOD) phase of the Browse LNG Development has been completed on schedule and to budget, and that work is now progressing through the assurance review process. Woodside is continuing to deliver against the Browse retention lease conditions and schedule ssued by the State and Commonwealth governments.

In February 2010 the Browse Joint Venture participants unanimously selected the development concept, which includes locating the Browse LNG Plant onshore at the Western Australian Government's LNG Precinct, 60km north of Broome. The Browse Joint Venture will invest approximately A$400 million in the development in 2010.

The first of the pre-FEED contracts, for the Central Processing Facility, has been awarded. The

remaining three packages – Subsea and Pipelines, Dry Tree Units and Downstream – are on track to be placed before year end.

As part of the FEED phase, Woodside will commence a significant mobilisation of personnel to

Contractor offices. There are currently more than 300 Woodside staff working on Browse. These include 16 Kimberley Indigenous people already on staff or in training.

The Western Australian Government is progressing the land tenure process at its James Price PointLNG Precinct. Negotiations continue between Woodside, the State and traditional owners.

The joint Federal-State Government Strategic Assessment of the State’s LNG Precinct is being

managed by the Western Australian Government. A public Strategic Assessment Report is due to be released by the end of 2010 for public comment, with the approvals process for the Precinct expected to be concluded by mid 2011. Woodside's Upstream Environmental Impact statement and Field Development Plans are also on track to be submitted for approval next year.

The contingent resources contained in the three Browse fields are 13.3 Tcf sales gas and 360 million barrels of condensate. Appraisal has been completed for the Brecknock and Calliance fields. Further appraisal work will be undertaken on Torosa to improve the conservative recovery factor.

Marketing of Woodside’s share of LNG targeted to come from the Browse project is progressing. The Key Terms Agreement (KTA) with CPC Corporation Taiwan for the potential sale of 2 to 3 million tones per annum of LNG for a period of 15 to 20 years has been extended to allow continuation of Heads of Agreement discussions into 2011. Positive discussions continue with other potential buyers in the Asia- Pacific region for the remaining available volumes.

Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed

WikiLeaks cables: Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed | Business | The Guardian

"There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nothing hidden that will not be made known. Everything youhave said in the dark will be heard in the daylight; what you have whispered in locked rooms will be proclaimed from the rooftops.”

– Luke 12:2-3

The oil giant Shell claimed it had ins erted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians' every move in the oil-rich Niger Delta, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable.

The company's top executive in Nigeria told US diplomats that Shell had seconded employees to every relevant department and so knew "everything that was being done in those ministries". She boasted that the Nigerian government had "forgotten" about the extent of Shell's infiltration and was unaware of how much the company knew about its deliberations.

This sounds so familiar, similar to what they have done to Kimberley Land Council (KLC) inserting ex Shell lawyers into the organisation. The oil & gas industries all have their subversives embedded in the Media, Universities, Bank Boardrooms, Government and or their Committees. This is not new, it’s just now we have very effective means to investigate, We now have a birds’ eye view map of all their interconnecting links, the role they play in the manipulation of the general public and their controlling ways.

“There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nothing hidden that will not be made known. Everything you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight; what you have whispered in locked rooms will be proclaimed from the rooftops.”
– Luke 12:2-3

All Redhand has ever wanted to do was to assist people to see the truth … about landing the world’s largest LNG refineries on our small Dampier Peninsular because without information you cannot make informed decisions as a public. Redhand had hoped to provoke community, regional, national and international discussion, debates, and we live in hope of creating reform, raising awareness and inspire people to think globally and ACT locally.

Redhand does not understand why so many Australian are politically apathetic, given the fact that no one is pointing a gun at us. After all, the social justice and human rights violations and the environmental destruction (planned) or concurrent are committed by those in power and the acquiescent public servants, (who service no one but themselves and their mortgage payments) can be suffocating, and the sense of powerlessness that erupts can be paralyzing, especially when …this government’s evildoers almost always get away with their lies, their cover-ups and crimes.

But, the times are changing, so be on guard.

Caton brings Castle vibe to land fight - The West Australian

Caton brings Castle vibe to land fight - The West Australian

Shire angry over delayed gas hub studies - ABC Kimberley WA - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Shire angry over delayed gas hub studies - ABC Kimberley WA - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

It’s a bit late for the President of the Broome Shire, Graham Campbell to be jumping up and down about the delay of a couple of weeks of the Kimberley LNG Strategic Assessment document given the fact that the original Department of State Development’s timeline had the release schedule for late 2009.

But where was our shire president, Cr Campbell when the Broome Community was screaming out about the lack of community consultation, lack of information, and a process that effectively locked community input out during the entire the social assessment period.

Where, how and when has the Broome Shire president advocated on behalf of the Broome Community about his constituency concerns regarding this proposed project and the lack of correct information?

Where was the Shire president, Cr Campbell when the Broome Shire tried to palm off a half baked Town Planning Scheme to the State Government that accommodated an industrial zone for the landing of the largest LNG Refinery in the world without releasing it to the Broome community for consultation or comment?

Where was our Shire president, Cr Campbell when at the Shire’s organised forum on the proposed LNG Refinery at James Price Point, held at BRACS, in Broome last year, when he did not allow a question and answers time or open up the floor to public debate?

Where was the Shire president, Cr Campbell when the Shire approved a Woodside planning application that will cause lot of environmental devastation and increase the level of community anxiety even in early investigative stages well before the Strategic Assessment document was completed or any approval for the project has been ticked?

Where will our Shire president, Cr Campbell be when the groundwater will be removed to determine how quickly it will bleed?

Where was our Shire president, Cr Campbell while the reef system that has been under assault and is suffering greatly already from the drilling regime that has been operating for months now at James Price Point?

Where will our Shire president, Cr Campbell be when all the fragile and rare Remnant Rainforest ecosystem with all its living creatures are being greatly effected by the noise movement of traffic and the vibrations of danger reverberating through the ground itself?

(We all know where his deputy Cr Chris Mitchell will be, he will be using the grant money provided by Woodside to the Wildlife Carers Association. Mitchell will be out there, in Country on his hobby horse, playing the community hero, out there rescuing all remaining alive creators who habitats have been raked to the ground).

When will the Shire president, Cr Campbell or for that matter the Broome Shire Council

have some stated public stance on state government’s Compulsory Acquisition being

enforced within their Shire?

When will our president stand up for the our heritage and speak about the Lurujarri Trail,

a project that the Broome Shire has supported, encouraged and in some cases grant

moneys for the protection and management of, for over twenty years.

Woodside current investigatory studies are already cutting tracks across the Songline,

is causing social and community heighten emotional apprehension. Angst is being

experienced equally and is being paralleled across our community, This trend will

continue to grow and be widely felt long before the Strategic Assessment is

released and the final decision is made.

Unacceptable impacts on matters protected under national environmental law

Mark these words "unacceptable impacts on matters protected under national environmental law" because if the Environment Minister Tony Burke is to sign off on proposed world largest gas refinery in the world at James Price Point, these will be the same words.

Federal government has approved Australia's first multi-billion dollar coal seam gas projects, in a move which has angered farmers and environmentalist.Environment Minister Tony Burke told a media conference in Canberra on Friday his department had given conditional environmental approvals for Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas (GLNG) - a joint venture between Santos, Malaysia's Petronas and France's Total - and BG Group's Queensland Curtis LNG.

"I have decided that these projects can go ahead without unacceptable impacts on matters protected under national environmental law," Mr Burke said, revealing he had placed 300 conditions on each of the projects.

"We must protect the Great Artesian Basin, our threatened species, our waterways and the Great Barrier Reef." lol lol lol

The approvals were delayed earlier this year by Mr Burke's predecessor, Peter Garrett, who was concerned about the projects' potential impact on groundwater and the Great Barrier Reef.

Green groups and farmers have raised concerns about coal seam gas development.

This week four toxic chemicals - benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX) - were discovered in eight exploration wells owned by the Australia Pacific LNG in the Surat Basin.

The Queensland government has dismissed calls for a moratorium on the industry, which environmentalists say poses a threat to marine life on the Great Barrier Reef and underground water, and could seriously degrade land.

Mr Burke said one of the more critical conditions surrounded how to deal with the issue of water within coal seams.

"The companies must carry out detailed planning and monitoring to protect groundwater resources, and submit management plans for aquifers, groundwater and surface water for approval," the minister said.

GOOLARABOOLOO PEOPLE CONFRONT THE PREMIER ON HIS PUSH TO STEAL JAMES PRICE POINT

Theresa Roe supported by her family speaking to Premier Barnett at the Broome Shire Council offices. She spoke of her love and connection to Country and her wish to protect Country from industrialisation of the proposed worlds largest LNG precinct.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservationists-attack-marine-park-plan-20101022-16xj8.html