Tag: Steven Miles

The assessment of a proposed $242.2 million vanadium mine in North West Queensland is one step closer to the finalisation of the terms of reference for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), the Queensland Government announced. 

A task force was established in Queensland to look into Mackay’s potential as the future home of a new biofutures area that would house industries making products from sustainable plant-based resources. 

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has visited Australia's largest solar farm, located in Queensland's Western Downs region, to mark the completion of the massive project.

The Qantas Group, Airbus, and the Queensland Government have joined forces to invest in a biofuel production plant being developed in Queensland by Jet Zero Australia in collaboration with the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) provider, LanzaJet. 

Australian petroleum company Ampol has partnered with Japan’s ENEOS to explore advanced biofuel production in Brisbane, bringing Queensland one step closer to becoming Australia’s hub for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). 

Work has begun on the first locally made Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicles (CRVs) at Rheinmetall Defence Australia’s Military Vehicle Centre of Excellence (MILVEHCOE) in Ipswich. 

Minister for the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef Meaghan Scanlon announced the first three projects to be funded under the $40 million Queensland Recycling Modernisation Fund (QRMF), which will focus on the remanufacture of waste plastics, glass, paper, cardboard, and tyres into new commercial products.

Deputy Premier and Minister for Planning Steven Miles said Queensland has become the first region in the state to obtain a 20-year plan for the key infrastructure required to drive regional economic transformation and employment.

The Queensland Government has declared the Kidston Wind Farm, the final stage of the Kidston Clean Energy Hub, as a prescribed project, ensuring its completion would generate 200 construction jobs.

The Queensland government is looking to work with the local industry to create a pipeline of Queensland jobs in the bus manufacturing sector and boost the manufacturing of buses that serve Queenslanders.