By MATTHEW KELLY and IAN KIRKWOOD Sept. 1, 2012, 4 a.m. AN environmental deed that BHP Billiton and the state government refused to release under freedom of information shows taxpayers will pay the costs of any problems at the Newcastle steelworks site…
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Author: By IAN KIRKWOOD Date: 20/08/2012 Words: 316 Source: NCH FORMER BHP Newcastle executive Greg Cameron says the Coalition state government has abandoned the Hunter Region by deciding to expand Port Botany and Port Kembla instead of promoting a container terminal on…
20 Aug, 2012 08:14 AM MORE than a decade after BHP stopped steelmaking in Newcastle, the future of the 150hectare site appears as uncertain as ever. On one hand, Newcastle Port Corporation has spent years working on ‘‘concept plans’’ for…
Author: By IAN KIRKWOOD Industrial Reporter Date: 18/08/2012 Words: 532 Source: NCH NEWCASTLE Port Corporation is confident of developing the former BHP steelworks site despite the state government opting for Port Kembla as the nextcontainer terminal after Port Botany. But a…
By IAN KIRKWOOD Industrial Reporter Aug. 17, 2012, 11:50 a.m. PROCESS: Gary Webb, above, Duncan Gay, below. and at bottom, the site with Carrington coal terminal in the foreground. Main Picture: AECOM NEWCASTLE Port Corporation is confident of developing the former…
Author: By IAN KIRKWOOD Date: 03/08/2012 Words: 404 Source: NCH "WHAT we're saying is not now, but not never." With those words, NSW Roads and Ports Minister Duncan Gay formally consigned the Hunter Valley's hopes of a steelworks-site container terminal to the…
Date: 01/08/2012 Words: 221 Source: SMH So consultants Morgan Stanley have told the NSW government it will get a better price for Port Botany if it lifts the cap on container movements through the port ("Roads pain tipped as container limit lifted", July 31)…
Author: Josephine Tovey Date: 31/07/2012 Words: 363 Source: SMH THE state government will allow unrestricted container movements from Port Botany as a carrot to the private sector bidding for the port, a move the opposition says will worsen congestion on some of…
Author: By MICHELLE HARRIS Date: 31/07/2012 Words: 279 Source: NCH A CONSORTIUM behind a $600 million steelworks site redevelopment proposal says it still believes Newcastle can host a successful container terminal despite a cabinet decision to privatise Ports Kembla and…