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Running on Reserve
I’m a classic motorbike fan, and one of the features I like about bikes is the reserve fuel tank which most have. It’s maybe not the most sexy feature on a bike, but it’s always there as a backup and has saved me from many a long, hot walk.
I think Queensland’s kerogen resources are a bit like Australia’s reserve tank. While fuel imposts are available, we don’t even think about it much. But most of us would feel better knowing we have a backup for the fuel supplies that keep goods on our supermarket shelves and keep our industries going. QER is workiing to make sure there will be a reserve available when we need it. That means continuing to develop and refine the technologies that enable us to produce fuel from kerogen shale with the smallest possible environment footprint.
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We’ve proven it at demonstration scale. The key now to making that reserve tank available for Australia’s future is to build a sustainable, commercial-scale kerogen fuels plant, producing retail quality ultra-low Sulphur diesel.
That project will unlock a significant Queensland resource. It will give the community, the Government and investors the confidence to support a future industry. An industry with the potential to shore-up access to affordable fuel for a long time to come, employ thousands of Australians and create prosperity for our region in the process.