Try a work force of 4000 people per LNG plant for 5 years, thats 12000-16000 people, never mind all the other Billion dollar investments say another 2000 people (minimum) add retail, hospital, police, port, the list goes on, operational people will be at least 1000 people per LNG facility as you have to include the operational maintenance contracts they hand out. Then they all want to expand there gas plants with additional trains so the contruction workforce might drop to 10000 for an additional 5 years. those are staggering numbers. Karratha only has 1 LNG train being built with 4000 people, never mind 3-4 simultaneously and rents are around $2000pw and 5 year old 4 x 2 will set you bank $1 mil plus. Gladstone is bigger though so they will probably be able to absorb it a little better, but not by much.
