Australia
Smart Metering Australia & New Zealand Summit 2012
Event Location:Sydney, AustraliaStart Date:27 February 2012End Date:28 February 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:Featuring a streamed conference with over 30 top-level speakers, an Exhibition, the ‘Sydney Harbour Boat Cruise & Networking Party’, and the ‘Australia and New Zealand Smart Metering Awards 2012’
Covering the future outlook for smart metering (electricity, gas and water) in Australia and New Zealand.
Benefit from extensive networking opportunities with Utilities, Distributors, Government and Regulators from across Australia and New Zealand.Australian Desal Plant Opens
The Australian Broadcasting Company (9/2) reports, "A desalination plant in the South West has been officially opened, three months ahead of schedule. More than $900 million has been spent building the state's second desalination plant at Binningup, just north of Bunbury. The Water Minister Bill Marmion revealed in July that construction was ahead of schedule and later announced the plant's capacity would be doubled to 100 billion litres by 2012."
Source: http://j.mp/oen9TS
ReplyPenrice, GE Plan Demonstration Plant To Extract Chemicals From Gas Well Water
The website Platts (6/7, Forster) reported that "Australian chemical company Penrice Soda Holdings has signed an agreement with GE Power & Water to build a demonstration plant using new technology to process the brine in water from coalseam gas wells, the company said in a statement Tuesday." Penrice has a patent pending for a new process that will "remove and make saleable chemicals from the brine in coalseam water" and "has already conducted laboratory and small-scale field trials of its technology, converting the dissolved brine in CSG water into the saleable chemicals sodium carbonate or s
Perth water Alliances projects
Metro Wastewater Treatment
Thiess is part of the Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant upgrade Alliance (W2W) with Water Corporation (the client), and a design team of Black & Veatch and Sinclair Night Merz, delivering the enhancements and upgrades valued at A$352m to Perth's three main metropolitan wastewater treatment plants at Beenyup, Woodman Point and Subiaco in western Australia.
Costliest natural disaster ever in a country known for climatic extremes
The floods in the major resource state of Queensland, which have swept through an area the size of South Africa, and overnight in 46 towns in Victoria state would not delay a promised return to surplus in 2012-13, Mr. Swan said.
But the huge rebuilding and cleanup cost could force difficult spending cuts.
The estimated cost of rebuilding the worst hit Queensland state alone stood at A$10 billion ($9.8 billion), The Australian newspaper said on Monday, and the damage bill was rising fast as record flooding moved south to northern and western Victoria.
ReplyDr RUSSEL NORMAN (Co-Leader—Green) to the Minister of Finance:
Dr. RUSSEL NORMAN (Co-Leader—Green) to the Minister of Finance: Does he stand by his statement that water assets will not be privatised as a result of the restructuring of local government; if so, how does he reconcile it with Cabinets decision to allow ownership of water infrastructure by the private sector?