WA Blocks Release of $40-B James Price Point Gas Project Over Question of Due Process

By International Business Times,  June 29, 2012, 01:27:40 AM EDT

A question if due process was followed was the basis in the Western Australian government's halt of the release of the Environmental Protection Authority's (EPA) approval of the $40-billion James Price Point gas project.

EPA Chairman Paul Vogel was the only one who made a recommendation on the Woodside-led project because of potential conflict of interest among the four other EPA board members. Two of them have Woodside shares, another was employed by British Petroleum which is a joint venture partner in the Browse liquefied natural gas project and the fourth worked for the Department of State Development, which is the project's proponent.

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