Following on from your DPI link - here is the DPI page in regards to the Vic. Govts. Clean Coal Victoria - CCV - based in Traralgon - Latrobe Vallery -
Specifically - New opportunities
The Department of Primary Industries encourages new brown coal-based investment in the Latrobe Valley.
The increasing scarcity and cost of other energy sources such as oil and gas opens up a new range of commercial uses and export opportunities for brown coal.
Examples include automotive gasoline, aviation turbine kerosene, automotive diesel fuel, synthetic natural gas, hydrogen, methanol, ammonia and their derivatives.
With appropriate treatment to reduce reactivity, it is also possible to produce thermal coal, metallurgical coal and activated carbon products for mineral processing. This has the potential to generate significant value from exports.
Clean Coal Victoria The extensive Latrobe Valley brown coal reserves are Victoria?s largest natural resource asset. They supply fuel for 90 per cent of Victoria?s electricity generation, and offer exciting opportunities for new commercial uses and exports.
The Victorian Government aims to ensure secure, reliable and affordable supply of energy from Latrobe Valley brown coal and deliver economic, social and environmental objectives for local communities and Victoria.
While the Victorian Government also supports research and development of alternative power supplies, next generation brown coal operations will continue to provide significant amounts of electricity for Victorian homes and businesses.
Coupled with the development of clean coal technology and new commercial uses and export opportunities for value-added brown coal products, large coal mining projects will remain a key feature of the Latrobe Valley region.
As part of planning for future resource use, environmental protection and land use, the Victorian Government has investigated the next generation of coal mines and coal mining technologies.
