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.
The writer of this item has writrten many headline stories on major projects over decades in journalism. Some of them came to fruition, but I can't think of one that happened in line with the initially publicised timetable.
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