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Gove refinery pipeline accessing unviable for small communities
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Pacific Aluminium, owners of the loss-making Gove refinery, have released details of the proposed 600 km Katherine to Gove pipeline, and has said that access to the pipeline would not be viable for local communities.
The pipeline, which was announced in February as part of a plan to save the refinery – which employs 1,500 people though loses a reported $30 million per month – runs through several remote communities that would benefit from gas access.
Pacific has said that accessing the planned high-capacity, high-pressure pipeline would be expensive and something only a major company could achieve.
"Our judgement is that it is likely to be uneconomic for small communities," Pacific’s chief operations officer Duncan Hedditch told the ABC.
"In future, with potentially more mineral exploration and development, it is certainly well within the realms of possibility that it could be used for those larger-scale purposes.
The pipeline, which was announced in February as part of a plan to save the refinery – which employs 1,500 people though loses a reported $30 million per month – runs through several remote communities that would benefit from gas access.
Pacific has said that accessing the planned high-capacity, high-pressure pipeline would be expensive and something only a major company could achieve.
"Our judgement is that it is likely to be uneconomic for small communities," Pacific’s chief operations officer Duncan Hedditch told the ABC.
"In future, with potentially more mineral exploration and development, it is certainly well within the realms of possibility that it could be used for those larger-scale purposes.
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