A view form Wales:
I think this might be a bit of over dramatisation.
In particular LNG terminals can be quite unobtrusive – we have one here in the Pembrokeshire National Park in the Milford Haven Waterway (all protected and environmentally sensitive) and while there are a number of valid objections to it on safety grounds etc now it is up and running it is on balance much cleaner and less of a pollution risk than oil jetties and refineries. (We have first hand experience here of the latter with the Sea Empress disaster) There also may not be “thousands” of ships – each ship carries an awful lot of LNG. And while the installation of the pipeline caused some disruption, now you would not know it was there.
However I have to agree that I would hate to see Broome turned into yet another mining town – apart form anything else, the area is an important tourism resource which would be completely lost if its character changed.
Rosemary
Wales