A $1 billion Gladstone Energy and Ammonia Project has taken a major step forward with Queensland's independent Coordinator-General giving the 1,000 job his stamp of approval. The Coordinator-General has flagged this project as a coordinated project, which will help streamline approvals and fast track this major projects delivery. The next step for this project will be to prepare an environmental impact statement.
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Many earthmoving and construction jobs will need a grader on site. Graders are used for civil engineering projects to precisely refine surface levels that a scraper, excavator or dozer has “rough graded”. We delve into the nuts and bolts of all the questions you should ask yourself when hiring a grader. How big is a graders blade? Graders are fitted with a long movable blade used to create flat surfaces. Our grader hire suppliers categorise their graders by blade width, from less than 10ft, to 12ft, 14ft, 16ft, and right up to 24ft. Smaller blades might be used on jobs like embankments, drains and ditches. The larger 24ft bladed models are usually used in the construction of mine haul roads to make way for big rigid rear dump trucks to travel around mine sites.
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A mining lease has been granted pertaining to a greenfields underground longwall operation, Ironbark No. 1, that is anticipated to produce up to 6 million tonnes of coal per annum.
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