“Simply put - the need to tell our story better,” he told the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association Conference in Brisbane on Wednesday.

Fisher described natural gas as the most regulated industry in Australia, saying it “has had so much light shone on it that it’s sunburnt.”

However, the more than A$25 million (US$23.9 million) spent on the environmental impact statement for QCLNG, which has over 1500 state and federal environmental conditions and 8000-plus sub-conditions, was not enough to stifle critics, he said.

“We