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Shell-Anglo Collaboration Says LaTrobe Coal Has Clean Coal Future
Monday, August 25, 2008
There are viable emerging alternative uses for the massive brown coal deposits of Victorias LaTrobe Valley which could contribute to a reduction in Australias carbon emissions footprint, according to one of Australias lead clean coal energy proponents.
The strong forward looking forecast was touted in Melbourne today at the inaugural Paydirt 2008 Victoria Resources Conference by Monash Energys Project Director, Mr Roger Bounds.
Monash Energy is a collaboration of Shell and Anglo American and which jointly aims to develop a clean coal to liquid project in the LaTrobe Valley, east of Melbourne, utilising the latest low emissions technologies.
Mr Bounds told delegates that the greener energy opportunities for the LaTrobe Valley should be matched with a parallel effort to transform the Gippsland Basin home to the Valleys coal deposits and nearby offshore oil and gas production – into a central hub in southern Australia for carbon sequestration.
Within the carbon climate debate, we have entered a transition period for these world-class coal deposits where there is demand for cleaner diesels and other by-products able to be generated through new-age coal to liquids technologies, Mr Bounds said.
The LaTrobes future, considering Australias increasing reliance on fuel imports – and pressures on the use of coal for power generation – can slow this global fuel reliance by using coal to liquids technology to produce sulphur free diesels, aviation fuel, fertilisers and feedstock for other cleaner petroleum products.
Monashs intention is to evolve a clean coal project in the LaTrobe capable of producing 70,000 barrels a day of mainly ultra clean, zero sulphur synthetic diesel.
To achieve that volume will require, however, the mining and gasification of 30 million tonnes of coal a year but that will require a carbon capture and storage capability (CCS) of 15 million tonnes a year.
That is equivalent to one years operation at the Loy Yang open-cut coal mine, or just over half the annual production capacity of the Geelong refinery.
However, this CCS opportunity could be enhanced if there is a collective approach to using the Gippsland Basin as a central hub for sequestration a carbon sink for greenhouses gases. There are enormous cost savings from co-operation that make CCS competitive.
So effectively we convert LaTrobes brown coal deposits into two new energy streams of clean fuel and gas storage.
Mr Bounds called however for more rapid Federal and State Government assistance in facilitating investment in the CCS infrastructure required to realise this vision.
He said that a carbon dioxide price alone would not be enough to provide the investment certainty required.
Only at that point does this emerging sector have the opportunity to address the challenges of coordinating clean coal energy investment, risk, and regulatory certainty, Mr Bounds said.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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