Friday, January 18, 2013

Shire of Broome - People : Place : Prosperity

Shire of Broome - People : Place : Prosperity:
APPLICATION RECEIVED FOR TEMPORARY WORKERS CAMP
The Shire of Broome has received an application to use and develop land to construct a Transient Workers’ Accommodation on Lot 283 Broome Road Roebuck. The 15 hectare site is located approximately 24km east of the Broome town site and 8km west of the Great Northern Highway turn off to Port Hedland.

In accordance with the Shire of Broome Town Planning Scheme No 4 Clause 4.3 the application is considered to be a Use Not Listed. As such the application is advertised in accordance with Clause 9.4.

The proposed temporary development (for a period of 5 years) includes:

Fly camp of 100 workers to establish the facility
An 857 single persons accommodation village
Kitchen and dining facility
Wet mess/tavern and associated facilities for 182 people
Medical security and emergency response building
Maintenance and miscellaneous buildings

Details of the proposal are available for inspection at the Shire of Broome Administration Office, 27 Weld Street, Broome or from the Shire website www.broome.wa.gov.au. Comments on the proposal may submitted to the Chief Executive Officer in writing on or before close of business Friday 8 February 2013

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  1. US wants unrestricted exports of LNG.

    Currently, the Department of Energy is able to approve LNG deals with countries it has a free trade agreement with but the department is compelled to consider “strategic issues” when dealing with applications to export to non-FTA countries.

    "What puzzles me about this whole situation is, in general, we as a country strongly support exports of everything but energy," Felmy said.

    "For some reason we get ourselves all wrapped up in a concern that energy is somehow a strategic commodity and we shouldn't export it and we shouldn't take advantage of the benefits that exports are."

    Felmy says restricting LNG exports "makes no more sense than unnecessarily restricting the export of chemicals, agricultural products or cars".

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    Italy takes top spot for Solar.

    DESPITE ongoing economic concerns, Italy has surpassed Germany as the most solar-powered industrialised nation in the world, according to figures from the country’s grid operator, Terna.

    According to early estimates by Terna, 86.8% of electricity demand in Italy was met by the nation’s own production, with 5.6% from solar photovoltaic energy.

    Italy saw a boom in solar energy, with growth in production at 71.8% in 2012, with solar PV producing a total of 18.3 terawatt-hours of energy.

    Germany, which has been steadily increasing its reliance on solar power since 2008, achieved a result of 4.8% of solar energy in 2012.

    Italy is surpassing the US in new solar installations and has achieved “grid parity”, where the alternative energy source is priced equal or lower than the conventional source.

    The boom also has implications for the Australian market with Australia’s CBD Energy providing a means to drive the market.

    At the end of 2012, CBD sold its first Italy-based solar project, with a 5-megawatt capacity, to a UK company for €12.3 million ($A15.5 million).

    The company has further projects of 25MW capacity in the pipeline.

    According to the Terna statistics, overall energy demand in Italy dropped by 2.8%, the most significant dip since a 5.7% drop in 2009.

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    More Myanmar blocks.

    Potential bidders will be able to submit bids for up to three blocks at once.

    The bidding round was meant to go ahead last September but several oil companies lodged their concern about transparency in the process.

    Myanmar has come to Australian attention after Woodside Petroleum made a couple of well-publicised farm-ins last year, centred around the Rakhine Basin.

    18 blocks would be offered

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    Rail beats pipe at Bakken.


    North Dakota produced 747,000 barrels a day in October, up 50 percent from a year earlier, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. An estimated 52 percent of the crude moved by rail, versus 38 percent by pipeline, according to the North Dakota Pipeline Authority.

    The largest oil rail-car shipper in the Bakken is Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) The company plans to boost its crude-oil shipments by 40 percent to 700,000 barrels a day by the end of this year, Chief Executive Matt Rose told Bloomberg in a phone interview this month.

    Enbridge’s North Dakota system can transport 210,000 barrels a day from Minot to Clearbrook, Minnesota, according to the company’s website.

    The company plans to expand its Bakken pipelines and to connect them with other parts of the Enbridge network, including construction of a new 225,000 barrel-a-day pipeline called “Sandpiper” that will link with Enbridge’s Mainline system in Superior, Wisconsin.


    BIG WIN FOR BUFFET THERE.

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