Expanding the gas pipeline to connect with the Eastern Seaboard is one of the strategic objectives.
Some of the key items in the economic development strategy:
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- Establishing an International Mining Museum for Mount Isa’s centenary in 2023.
- Facilitating private investment to bring northern gas to the east coast via the Mount Isa to Wallumbilla gas pipeline.
- Establishing a centralised database on minerals and mining tenements in the North West Minerals
- Help establish a Mount Isa campus of a North Queensland Flying School
- Examine prospective pyrite production project and facilitate a market response to the medium and longer term requirement for sulphuric acid at Phosphate Hill.
Mount Isa is currently a "power island" separated from the national grid.
- Facilitate a market led proposal to connect Mount Isa to the state electricity grid and the National Electricity Market.
- Push for the acceleration of shale gas exploration in the Isa Superbasin.
- Examine options to develop irrigated agriculture in the region
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