Premier Roger Cook said WA had a “Browse-sized hole” in its future energy needs, and has claimed that without it, fracking in the Kimberley could be on the table.

Conservation groups have lined up to give Premier Roger Cook brickbats after he remarked that WA could be forced to start fracking the Kimberley region if Woodside’s Browse gas…

The Conservation Council said WA was not facing a gas supply problem, but it did have a gas export problem.