“Our role was to advise the banks, so our main challenges were working with EDL to provide a sensible solution that allowed them to develop the project and continue to develop it over the 20-year period,” he said.

Quinn said the hardest thing for the banks “to get their heads around” was the ongoing construction period, which on this project could exceed 10 years.

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Native title issues also provided a challenge, not just in terms of the power station sites, but also on easements for pipelines “through reasonably populated areas” from the LNG plant to its storage site on the opposite side of Broome.