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NSW woobles on wind for desalination

admin /25 November, 2007

Source: ABC Online  

Doubts have surfaced about the New South Wales Government’s commitment to fully power the proposed desalination plant at Kurnell, in Sydney’s south, with wind energy.

The State Government is calling for proposals from wind farms to meet the entire energy needs of the Kurnell plant.

More than 20 producers have already been briefed on the project.

Water Resources Minister Nathan Rees estimates less than a fifth of the national output of wind farms would be needed for the job, but getting it to Sydney could require additional resources.

"There may well need to be new infrastructure but that’s a decision for the successful proponent," he said.

Demand for resources outstrips supply

admin /17 November, 2007

Lat year, there was a serious, global shortage of key mineral products such as iron ore, copper and zinc. Shortage of supply reason for high prices: This was not so much about price as supply. That shortage was driving prices to unbelievable levels. Contract prices for iron ore of more than $US100 would have been Continue Reading →

Massive desalination plans secret

admin /17 November, 2007

Speaking about desalination plants in South-East Queensland in the First session of the Fifty-Second Parliament, Queensland, on 13 November 2007 Bruce Flegg MP said it was hard to imagine that something that could add more than 400 million litres of drinking water each day to south-east Queensland’s dwindling water supplies would be a state secret.

Second desalination plant is a state secret: Flegg said: "To put that in perspective, this would supply more than half of south-east Queensland’s daily drinking water. But that is precisely what the Queensland Labor government is trying to do. People living anywhere from Southport to Noosa could have a massive new neighbour, but they are unlikely to officially know more about it until after the federal election. A second desalination plant is referred to in Kellog Brown and Root. A massive plant is in the pipeline, but it is an official state secret.

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