Monday, 20 Feb 2012
An Indian conglomerate is planning to build Queensland's biggest coal mine, west of Rockhampton in the state's central region, including a new town, runway, railway and port facilities.
The Adani Group has proposed a new open cut and underground mine, mostly on the Moray Downs cattle station, about 100 kilometres north of Emerald.
The cost of construction is expected to be at least AUD 6 billion and the mine would produce about 60 million tonnes per year, with a mine life of more than a century.
If the project goes ahead, Adani said it would be the largest investment by an Indian company in Australia.
The company is also planning to establish a new town to deal with the Carmichael mine's remote location.
It said it would also build an airstrip for fly in fly out workers, along with new railway and port facilities at either Abbot Point or Hay Point.
Adani said that exports would predominantly service the Indian domestic power market.
Queensland Mining Minister Stirling Hinchliffe said that he would prefer the company to use locally sourced labour. He said that "I have given a very clear message to the companies involved, including Mr Adani directly, that we have a very high expectation about the role that Queenslanders will play in these projects.”
Mr Hinchliffe also says there is not sufficient infrastructure in central Queensland's Galilee Basin to cope with the major new mining project.
(Sourced from www.abc.net.au)
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Coal miners allowed collective negotiations for Dudgeon Point
Saturday, 29 Oct 2011
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has granted interim authorisation for coal miners to collectively negotiate with Dudgeon Point terminal management.
Carabella Resources, Macarthur Coal, Middlemount Coal, New Hope, and Peabody are all seeking port capacity to export from the terminal. This authorisation allows the miners to begin negotiations with the port while the ACCC assesses their applications. However it does not allow them to enter into any contracts or agreements.
The ACCC added that the granting of interim authorization in no way binds the ACCC in its consideration of the substantive application for authorization.
It provides immunity from court action for conduct that might otherwise raise concerns under the competition provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. Broadly, the ACCC may grant an authorization when it is satisfied that the public benefit from the conduct outweighs any public detriment.
Dudgeon Point will be built near the existing Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay coal ports. The Greens have recently raised fears over the development of the coal terminals in the area, senator Ms Larissa Waters stating that the community is saying their homes are being blanketed with coal dust and they need to keep their windows shut through the whole of summer.
She said "The noise of the trains, conveyor belts and helicopters is quite unbearable, I am told, and they're already doing an awful lot of dredging."
A draft decision on the miners' applications will be released in December.
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has granted interim authorisation for coal miners to collectively negotiate with Dudgeon Point terminal management.
Carabella Resources, Macarthur Coal, Middlemount Coal, New Hope, and Peabody are all seeking port capacity to export from the terminal. This authorisation allows the miners to begin negotiations with the port while the ACCC assesses their applications. However it does not allow them to enter into any contracts or agreements.
The ACCC added that the granting of interim authorization in no way binds the ACCC in its consideration of the substantive application for authorization.
It provides immunity from court action for conduct that might otherwise raise concerns under the competition provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. Broadly, the ACCC may grant an authorization when it is satisfied that the public benefit from the conduct outweighs any public detriment.
Dudgeon Point will be built near the existing Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay coal ports. The Greens have recently raised fears over the development of the coal terminals in the area, senator Ms Larissa Waters stating that the community is saying their homes are being blanketed with coal dust and they need to keep their windows shut through the whole of summer.
She said "The noise of the trains, conveyor belts and helicopters is quite unbearable, I am told, and they're already doing an awful lot of dredging."
A draft decision on the miners' applications will be released in December.
sourced from Miningaustralia
If you believe an article violates your rights or the rights of others, please contact us.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Australia's QR National approves coal freight line expansion
Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:40pm GMT
SYDNEY, March 25 (Reuters) - Australian rail freight firm QR National said on Friday it had approved A$185 million to expand its Goonyella rail network to support the expansion of the Hay Point Coal Terminal in Mackay, Queensland state.
The expansion of Goonyella, the largest single export coal network in Australia, will support BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance's port project and will come on line in early 2014, QR National said in a statement on Friday.
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