Legal blow for massive Browse gas hub WA's premier says he will not give up on his plan for a massive gas hub in the Kimberley. DEFIANT West Australian Premier Colin Barnett has attempted to shrug off the embarrassing legal defeat which places even more doubt around the proposed multi-billion dollar gas hub in the Kimberley. Mr Barnett's dream of a massive onshore gas hub at James Price Point was dealt yet another blow on Monday, when WA's Chief Justice Wayne Martin ruled the environmental approval for the project was unlawful. The proposed scheme was already in limbo, after energy giant Woodside announced earlier this year it would instead consider processing Browse Basin gas on a vessel stationed far offshore. On Monday, Justice Martin gave the government another major headache, handing down damning verdicts on its environmental approval process. Mr Barnett described the ruling as "regrettable" - and signalled the government would fight on. "The decision relates to the process ... he did not in any way question the environmental conditions or approvals themselves," Mr Barnett said. All the environmental evidence and surveys and research has been done over many, many years. I am confident that still stands. It is now simply up to the state government to resubmit the environmental evidence and the recommendations on conditions attached to the use of James Price Point. That is, in all likelihood, what we will do. He also called on both Mr Vogel and Mr Marmion to resign, which Mr Barnett dismissed. Asked why the WA government would not simply abandon its bid, Mr Barnett said: "I don't give up." It is open to the WA government to appeal against the ruling, but the Wilderness Society warned it would then cross-appeal.