Dudgeon Point Coal Terminal

The Dudgeon Point Coal Terminal is a project proposed by the North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP). Dudgeon Point is located approximately six kilometers north of the existing Hay Point Coal Terminal and Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal and is within the area designated as the Port of Hay Point. The new coal export terminal, which is currently the subject of an environmental impact assessment, is proposed to have a capacity of 180 million tonnes of coal a year with construction slated to commence in 2013 and the first shipments made in 2016.

In late October 2011 the Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for State Development and Trade, Andrew Fraser, announced that the Dudgeon Point Coal Terminal have been declared a 'significant project' by the Coordinator-General. "The proposed DPCT", he gushed, "would involve the development of two new coal terminals with a combined export capacity of 180 million tonnes per year – almost exactly the amount of coal exported out of the entire state in 2009-10. This massive project is potentially worth $10 - $12 billion in investment, which stands to deliver another 5000 construction jobs." Despite his enthusiastic endorsement of the project, Fraser insisted that it didn't mean that the project would "get a rails run."

In July 2010 the North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation that DBCT Management, which leases the adjacent Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal and the Adani Group had been selected as the "preferred proponents" for a new coal export terminal at Dudgeon Point.

The North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation stated that "the next step is for NQBP, DBCT Management and the Adani Group to prepare a master plan for coal export infrastructure at Dudgeon Point to assist the State and NQBP to evaluate options for meeting development demands. The master plan will assist in the potential allocation of land to each of the preferred proponents for the construction of coal export infrastructure with the balance of land retained by NQBP for future development. This Report can be found here.

Website resources
Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning page: http://www.dsdip.qld.gov.au/assessments-and-approvals/dudgeon-point-coal-terminals-project.html Local Community Resistance "Citizens Concerned about Dudgeon Point": http://www.dudgeonpoint.org/

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