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Some interesting facts about the Fraser Coast area in below links.

Maryborough Coal Seam Gas

Stakeholder briefing presentation_NEC Colton mine

Media Alert $1.4 Billion Regional Development Australia Fund to boost regions

Fraser Coast News Mary Harbour Project

102 New Projects 04112011

011 Wide Bay burnett Economic Demographic Report

The Morning Bulletin 1952011

The above info has been gleaned from various sources for your reading

Henry Sapiecha

Job applications being accepted for coal mine near Howard @ Aldershot

FRASER COAST CHRONICLE STORY ON COLTON MINE OPERATION AND JOBS ADVERTISED TO FILL

THE financial buy-in earlier this year by mining giant New Hope has set Maryborough’s Colton Coal Mine project on track for a start as early as next year.

Job applications are now being processed to help fill the 100 positions the mine will create and current mine workers already living on the Fraser Coast are at the head of the queue.

The long-awaited project has taken off since Ipswich-based coal company New Hope bought 59% of shares from Northern Energy Corporation (NEC) with a $238 million cash bid in February this year.

Acting chief executive officer of NEC, Shane Stephan, said the buy-in had provided the extra capital needed to get the project off the ground.

“The major change has been that the project has been reinvigorated now that New Hope has taken over,” Mr Stephan said.

“New Hope is very large and has the resources needed to get it going.”

Once it was up and running, the mine was set to inject about $20 million a year into the Maryborough economy in wages and local services.

“The key message is we are collecting resumes and the preference is for applications from appropriately qualified local people,” Mr Stephan said.

The site at Colton, north of Maryborough, covers just more than 1000 hectares and the company expected to mine about five million tonnes of coking coal in eight to 10 years.

“We are currently undertaking exploration drilling, and a follow-up environmental management plan is being lodged with the Department of Environment and Resource Management,” Mr Stephan said.

Following the plan’s approval, a public notification process would take place and the final paperwork would be completed to grant the mining lease.

“Once the lease is granted, which could be in the last quarter of 2012, we should be looking at starting work,” Mr Stephan said.

The coal would be sent by rail to Gladstone for export, initially through Barney Point and later through the Wiggins Island terminal.

COLTON MINE FAST FACTS

• The project will boost the Maryborough economy by about $20 million a year.
• About 100 jobs will be created for local plant operators, truck driver, electricians, surveyors and more.
• The mine at Colton will be built near the site of a historic mine that operated from the late 1800s to the 1990s.
• About half-a-million tonnes of coking coal will be extracted every year, for an estimated 10 years.
• The mine is expected to open late next year.

To register interest in a job at the mine, visit www.northernenergy.com.au/work_with_us

Sourced from the local paper The Fraser Coast Chronicle

Some clarity on the trades & services zone usage from council at last

As discussed today, a Warehouse is ‘self-assessable’ within the Services and Trade zone under the planning scheme provided you comply with the following:

Copies of these codes are below for your convenience.

Part_4-_Rural_Locality

Urban Locality Code – Services Trade Zone-1

Parking and Access Code-1

Parking and Access Code-1

Works Services and Infrastructure Code-1

Please also note that the proposed amendments to the planning scheme are currently being publicly notified and that additional uses are proposed to be self assessable (provided compliance with acceptable solutions), being as follows:

Service Industry – means the use of premises involving the manufacturing, assembly, altering or repairing of products, or an industrial activity that is intended to provide industry services to the general public or is similar to those activities set out below:

§         Bakery product manufacturing;

§         Car washing station;

§         Cleaning contractor’s establishment;

§         Clothing manufacture;

§         Dry-cleaning;

§         Electrical goods manufacture, maintenance or repair;

§         Engraving and trophy manufacture;

§         Furniture repair;

§         Household equipment manufacture, maintenance or repair;

§         Ice works;

§         Laboratory services;

§         Locksmith;

§         Office equipment manufacture, maintenance or repair;

§         Printing and Publishing;

§         Security services;

§         Sporting and recreational goods, manufacture, maintenance or repair; and

§         Upholstering.

The term includes ancillary activities that support the industrial use such as administration offices or sales and display areas for products manufactured, assembled or finished on the site.  The term does not include any use defined as Industry, Special Industry or Trade and Hardware Supplies as separately defined.

Trade and Hardware Supplies – means the use of premises for the display of trade and hardware supplies for sale or hire, including household fixtures, timber, tools, paint, wallpaper, plumbing supplies and the like.  The term does not include the sale of kitchen or dining wares, camping goods, furniture or other household products or home wares.  The term does not include a Shop, Showroom or Outdoor Sales Premises as separately defined.

It is also noted that the amendments propose to remove the self-assessable provisions for a Warehouse.

If you have any queries, please call/e-mail me.

Received & published by Henry Sapiecha

FRASER COAST COUNCIL

and the confusing Trades & Services Zoning application.

Word is out from a reliable source that there will be clearer defined uses under this zoning instead of the current instead of ‘see how we  feel on the day’ approach by council when looking to use the land/shed for a trade or service.

It is not before time that this is to happen to give a clearer picture to both the developers and the incoming tenant or buyer of such zoned land.

Currently there is no incentive for anybody to go forward with sale contracts or business commencement in a timely fashion as it is left to council to make decisions that from experience are fraught with huge crippling delays and expenses.

No wonder council crys poor from lack of funds from developers.

‘There is also a concern that the majority of councillors are women, who are good at what they do generally in council but who perhaps do not full understand the complexities & risks of development’ it is said.

Increasing charges to developers is certainly not the way to go & just destroys any incentives necessary to move forward .

We have heard all of this before from the spin doctors in council.

Let’s see where this all takes us over the next few months

Published by Henry Sapiecha

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