jobs bonanza in victoria , page-14

And an editorial:

Coal rush is Ted's answer

Editorial
From:Herald Sun
June 01, 2012 12:00AM

OPENING up Victoria's vast brown coal deposits through an environmentally clean process promises to turn around the state's economy.

As reported in today's Herald Sun, an $11 billion economic boost through some of the world's biggest companies could provide thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of permanent positions.

The Latrobe Valley could be transformed into a mining export hub similar to the Pilbara or Hunter Valley with the advent of new brown coal technology.

The project may silence even the most strident of environmental critics through research to make brown coal use as clean as gas.

The Baillieu Government, struggling with the loss of manufacturing jobs, has spent months in talks with a consortium of Indian and Japanese corporations led by Australian company Energex [not quite, Energex are in QLD, but close!] and may have struck what it is looking at as "coal gold".

This is the type of innovative thinking and creative approach Victoria needs from its Government and a demonstration plant to prove the process should remove any doubts over carbon proliferation.

It could allow Victoria to share in the minerals boom with safeguards that would guarantee billions of dollars in export sales.

Victorians will be reassured by a project likely to lead to a surge in economic activity across the state.

There are those only too ready to condemn coal mining. But families in Gippsland's Latrobe Valley who are facing closure of coal-fired electricity generation plants under a carbon tax regime will now look to a brighter future.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/coal-rush-is-teds-answer/story-e6frfhqo-1226378712980