{"id":1759,"date":"2014-06-16T06:16:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T06:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2014\/06\/16\/chester-welcomes-more-clean-coal-funding\/"},"modified":"2014-06-16T06:16:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T06:16:07","slug":"chester-welcomes-more-clean-coal-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/chester-welcomes-more-clean-coal-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"CHESTER WELCOMES MORE CLEAN COAL FUNDING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>June 16, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FEDERAL Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has welcomed the announcement of a third advanced coal project that is expected to create an extra 100 jobs in the Latrobe Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth and Victorian governments have granted $25 million towards the development of a $119 million demonstration plant at Loy Yang A Power Station.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said this project would complement similar projects previously announced as part of the jointly-funded Advanced Lignite Demonstration Program (ALDP). \u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThis latest announcement is another show of confidence in the Latrobe Valley coal and electricity industry, which is major employer in Gippsland and a reliable source of energy,\u201d said Mr Chester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestment in new technologies will help secure a long term future for the industry and protect the jobs we already have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest project will initially produce briquettes to fuel a power station in Shanghai, but if successful could evolve into a commercial-scale plant to supply Latrobe Valley generators.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal and State Governments have previously announced $30 million for a demonstration plant producing fertiliser, oil and high-value coal used in steelmaking, and $20 million for a pilot plant producing upgraded coal products for local or export markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>June 16, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FEDERAL Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has welcomed the announcement of a third advanced coal project that is expected to create an extra 100 jobs in the Latrobe Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth and Victorian governments have granted $25 million towards the development of a $119 million demonstration plant at Loy Yang A Power Station.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said this project would complement similar projects previously announced as part of the jointly-funded Advanced Lignite Demonstration Program (ALDP). \u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThis latest announcement is another show of confidence in the Latrobe Valley coal and electricity industry, which is major employer in Gippsland and a reliable source of energy,\u201d said Mr Chester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}