Jan 30, 2020 | Power News
The Australian government, through its Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), is to provide $18 million dollars in grant funding to develop Australia’s second energy-from-waste plant, based in Western Australia.
The facility in East Rockingham is expected to process 300,000 tonees of residual waste from non-recyclable waste, delivering 29MW of baseload electricity capacity. That’s enough to provide power to more than 36,000 homes1.
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Jan 30, 2020 | Defence News
Recently, the news that set fingertips tingly, the silver lining around the orange, smoke-haze cloud that hangs over our head, is that some of our biggest defence assets have been called in to help with the action.The bushfires currently ravaging Australia will come as no surprise to readers. Since September in NSW, and December in Victoria and South Australia, bushfires have claimed lives and homes, razed through our flora and fauna, livestock and lifestyles.
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Jan 30, 2020 | WiAM News
Having a chat is something I love to do. I’m curious by nature, I’m interested in other people, and being in a job where I can combine my loquacious personality with my other favourite activity, writing, makes me a pretty happy camper. So, in late October, I was delighted to sit with Sally Jones, Manager of Asset Management at Victoria’s Country Fire Authority—better known as the CFA—to interview her for a post relating to our Women in Asset Management Special Interest Group.
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Jan 22, 2020 | Events
The AM Council was delighted to participate in the ICMIAM held in Bangalore India on 16th to 19th Jan 2020. John Hardwick and Dr Anne Gibbs provided keynote addresses to the delegates.
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Jan 8, 2020 | General
Broadspectrum, Ferrovial’s Australian services subsidiary, is sold to Ventia, subject to standard conditions and regulatory approval.
Ventia is an infrastructure services provider in Australia and New Zealand and brings more than thirty years of industry knowledge in services such as telecommunications, infrastructure and utilities1.
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