Registrations of interest from local contractors and suppliers are still being sought as construction begins on a $273 million biofuel production facility in the Illawarra.
Bureaucratic bottlenecks are holding up the issue of copper exploration permits leaving north west Queensland’s rich copper belt empty, according to Chinalco Yunnan Copper.
Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG) has awarded a $800 million of gas gathering and water treatment facilities contracts across rural and central Queensland to Leighton Contractors.