Tiwi Islanders initially raised no objection to tapping the Barossa gasfield or the pipeline linking it to Darwin. Then the green lawyers rolled in with their academics-for-hire, persuaded a hanful of locals to rewrite their creation myths and stopped the project in its tracks. As the Federal Court has found, that campaign was a gigantic and cynical fraud
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Adelaide-based Santos will be able to begin work on its $5 billion gas export pipeline in the Timor Sea, apart from near the Tiwi Islands, following a Federal Court decision.