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Jos, many years of planning have gone into the pipeline plans as...

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    Jos, many years of planning have gone into the pipeline plans as shown in the following Mantle/Exergen announcement. The fact that Mantle/Exergen are still publishing that plan in ASX announcements is very encouraging to me. We know who the guys are behind Exergen and the reputations they need to protect, so this is no pie in the sky stuff IMO, Elphinstone, Albrecht and Brockway are all very well connected, not to mention other Exergen directors who have links to Shell, Alcoa, Yallourn etc...

    http://www.exergen.com.au/managementServices.html


    http://www.mantlemining.com/wp-cont...Progresses-Large-Scale-Demonstration-MNM3.pdf


    http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/im...l_exploration/hearings/20111214_-_Exergen.pdf

    Dr HAMILTON — Tariff. But I also like to have a plan that you can actually do yourself, and the Exergen plan is built around — because we have this pipeline in nature, there is an existing pipeline easement runs five kilometres north of the Yallourn mine, about 15 kilometres north of Loy Yang, and it finishes actually at the old BP site at Western Port. Mr FOLEY — So you would run that on the gas line? Dr HAMILTON — Same easement. Wherever the existing process facility would be, there would be a short amount of new pipeline easement to get connected to that, 15 kilometres. Mr FOLEY — And you would pay for it? Dr HAMILTON — Run in the existing pipeline easement, which is already a gazetted pipeline easement, and there will be some short end at the Western Port end, depending on final solutions down there. The only potential infrastructure might be, as I discovered when I was doing some preparation, if there is a plan to cease industrial development south of Hastings that will potentially take out access to a deep port existing Victorian asset and jetty, which sits off Crib Point at the moment, which had been our plan. So we would need to actually understand what the Western Port deep water access port plans were if we are north but we are actually also working on other options with the solution that might actually still allow us back to that through liquids export.


    http://www.hastings3915.info/pipelines/

    "Many questions about Hastings coal export

    There are lots of IFS about a story in The Age on Wednesday morning, October 14, about a possibility of coal export from the Latrobe Valley by pipeline through the Port of Hastings.
    The story can be found at http://www.theage.com.au/environment/brumbys-dirty-secret-coal-for-export-20091013-gvnp.html
    The major questions are: Will the State government call for competitive tenders to export coal? And, if Exergen is successful and is able to build a demonstration drying plant (processing 50 tonnes an hour) and if that is successful in turning brown coal into a fuel of similar quality to low-grade black coal. will it then be able to transfer the process to a much larger plant that can be developed. If all that is achieved it could be possible that exports could flow in 2014."

    and

    "Hastings is an industrial town. Certainly it is the eastern gateway to the Mornington Peninsula winery and holiday area but it exists primary for its industries -- petrol, steel and gas. And if you wonder why you don't see more evidence of the products, it's because they go under the ground. For example, unleaded petrol is transported to the United storage and distribution facilities in Hastings from Crib Point jetty along a 78km pipeline connecting Crib Point to Long Island and Melbourne which was established in 1970. A 180km pipeline takes crude oil and gas from Bass Strait at Longford to the Esso installations at Hastings built in 1968. Pipelines also connect to Mobil and Shell refineries in Melbourne and Geelong.
    Each year around 4 million tonnes of petroleum product is handled through the State owned jetties at Crib Point and Long Island Point with a further 1.2 million tonnes of steel product through the BlueScope Steel wharves. The port handles an average of three crude oil carriers, six LPG vessels and eight vessels with steel cargoes each month."

    B Rubes
 
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