"I'm of the view that the lignite we have available to us is an...

"I'm of the view that the lignite we have available to us is an outstanding natural resource and I think applying new technologies and new uses for the resource is what we should be doing," he said.
The $90 million government-funded Advanced Lignite Demonstration program announced in 2012 failed to find alternative uses for brown coal and failed when two of the three projects were shelved


Put up the $90m again and I reckon we will get it now for sure, well we did get an ATO RnD ruling so imo it was probably the same as what we were asking for anyways ..

As Satin would say Win Win the devils in the details !!