Summary

... Applegarth J described the parties in this proceeding as being engaged in litigation on a monumental scale arising from the construction of the upstream component of a major coal-seam gas project between 2011 and 2014.

The Gladstone Liquified Natural Gas Project (the GLNG Project) is a coal seam gas to liquified natural gas project in central and southern Queensland. The GLNG Project involves the extraction of coal seam gas in fields in central southern Queensland, including at Fairview and Roma, and, after initial processing, the transportation of that gas by a long-distance gas pipeline to Curtis Island at Gladstone. There the gas is liquified into liquified natural gas and loaded onto ships. ...