Behind The Scenes of The Sounds & The Times support may be...

Behind The Scenes of The Sounds & The Times support may be building for the TECH project:

* Last month - The next stage of enabling transport infrastructure works for the Lansdown Eco-Industrial Precinct (LEIP) has started with local contractor BMD Constructions set to upgrade a section of the Flinders Highway intersection at Old Flinders Highway and Woodstock-Giru Road, Woodstock.
https://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/lansdown/announcements

* Last week - the EU waking up to China's dominance of the EV supply chain and heavy state-led subsidisation, which may require further help from Western policymakers to help western EV/traditional auto survive:
https://www.***.com.au/business/the-economy/how-china-sparked-chaos-in-the-world-of-cars-20230918-p5e5fn.html
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* Last Friday - PM delivers speech to Future Energy Forum, spruiking Australia as a renewable energy superpower, leading to an advanced manufacturing powerhouse, referencing critical minerals, nickel and cobalt, the $100M Australian Made Battery Precinct in Queensland, the National Reconstruction Fund, gas as a flexible source of peaking generation & that the Bowen Basin will continue to benefit from the global demand for high quality metallurgical coal:
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/address-future-energy-forum

* Yesterday - NRF Board meets for the first time:
https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/husic/media-releases/national-reconstruction-fund-board-meets-first-time

* Yesterday - Benchmark Mineral Intelligence deliver a keynote speech at the SMMT Electrified Conference in London, highlighting the gigafactory buildouts will need to cover off their inputs:


* Yesterday - QPM picking up on Benchmark's lithium, nickel and cobalt forecast market balances (deficits):



* Overdue - QLD to release and implement its Battery Industry Strategy: https://www.statedevelopment.qld.gov.au/industry/powering-queenslands-battery-industry
The consultation paper had numerous references to the TECH project:


Maybe These Times to turn around soon?...