{"id":142222,"date":"2016-04-19T00:15:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=142222"},"modified":"2020-10-18T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T05:33:07","slug":"moreton-takes-mining-plan-out-to-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/04\/19\/moreton-takes-mining-plan-out-to-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Moreton Takes Mining<br> Plan Out To The People"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142231\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160404moreton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-142231\" title=\"20160404 Moreton Resources\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160404moreton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160404moreton.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160404moreton-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moreton Resources CEO Jason Elks explaining the progression of the MRV Tarong Basin Coal project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>April 18, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Anne Miller<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moreton Resources&#8217; CEO Jason Elks has been holding small meetings across the South Burnett over the past six weeks in a bid to win over South Burnett residents towards his company&#8217;s coal mine proposal.<\/p>\n<p>News of the meetings has been spreading mainly by word of mouth, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped people from turning up to listen and ask questions &#8211; and, occasionally, the Knitting Nannas to turn up in (almost) silent protest.<\/p>\n<p>Meetings have been held from Murgon to Blackbutt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>southburnett.com.au<\/strong> dropped into a recent meeting which attracted about a dozen people in Kingaroy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Elks updated the audience on how far the project had progressed.<\/p>\n<p>He said Moreton Resources&#8217; subsidiary, MRV Tarong Basin Coal, had brought on board partners for the project, including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MacMahon<\/strong> to provide mining services;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wave International<\/strong>, as a construction, engineering and project management partner;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Initiative Capital<\/strong>, an Australian venture capital company based in Brisbane; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Beyond Billabong<\/strong>, a company that assists organisations to attract, recruit and retain Indigenous trainees and employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quizzed about where Moreton planned to sell its coal &#8211; as Stanwell has repeatedly said it is not interested &#8211; Mr Elks did not rule out export opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Potential markets for thermal coal from the mine included Japan, China, Korea and India.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed there were several ways that coal could be transported to port for export, including rail &#8211; and the South Burnett was ideally placed to link up to several existing rail lines &#8211; but he said his preferred option was a slurry pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Pulverized coal could be piped to port in a closed loop system, with the water recycled, returning via a smaller pipe.<\/p>\n<p>Slurry pipelines have been used elsewhere in Australia to move ore efficiently over long distances.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_142265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142265\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160418footprint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142265\" title=\"Approximate mine footprint\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160418footprint.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160418footprint.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160418footprint-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moreton Resources CEO Jason Elks provided this sketch of the approximate footprint size of the mine, compared with the proposals in the past for Kunioon mine; he told southburnett.com.au that the location could be shifted across the deposit to avoid issues with landholders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mr Elks also answered questions about:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What would the mine look like from the houses on Hospital Hill in Kingaroy (from the top of the peanut silos, it should appear as a black line on the horizon; beside the mine, it would look like a coal mine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Damage from blasting (the force of the explosion is directed into the mine wall; he urged people to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oricaminingservices.com\/au\/en\/page\/independent_pages\/tarong_coal__-_a_record_blast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch a video<\/a><\/strong> of a record blast at Meandu Mine shot by Orica)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dust from the mine (he said base data would be collected; this base data would include all the dust that is currently present from activities such as cropping; wind flow data from the airport suggested a speed and direction away from Taabinga Village and Kingaroy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Interference with the airport (yes, there would be a need for airport users, such as the gliding club, and the coal mine to co-ordinate activities; and there would be a mountain of regulations for Moreton to adhere to; use of the airport by the Royal Flying Doctor etc would not be affected)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Would the houses in Taabinga Village be purchased (there was no plan to buy homes in Taabinga Village)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr Elks said Moreton was keen to explore traineeships in conjunction with local businesses in the South Burnett.<\/p>\n<p>Under this scheme, trainees or apprentices would be paid by Moreton but placed at external businesses; when skilled they would transferred to the mine project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/04\/kccg-to-speak-to-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KCCG To Speak To Council<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/03\/nannas-knit-against-mine\/\">Nannas Knit Against Mine<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/03\/kccg-meets-with-state-government\/\">KCCG Meets With State Government<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/03\/coal-mine-fight-spreads\/\">Coal Mine Fight Spreads<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/03\/moreton-unveils-mine-partner\/\">Moreton Resources Unveils Mine Partner<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/03\/meetings-to-discuss-mine\/\">Meetings To Discuss Mine<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/03\/moreton-plans-to-start-seeking-permits\/\">Moreton Plans To Start Seeking Permits<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/02\/moretons-coal-too-expensive\/\">Moreton\u2019s Coal \u2018Too Expensive\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/02\/kingaroy-coal-mine-no-way\/\">Kingaroy Coal Mine? 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