Funding for Richmond 'green coal' plant to help fix prickly acacia

Derek Barry
Updated June 7 2022 - 10:46am, first published 10:32am
Green Day Energy founder Brad Carswell and Richmond Shire Council Mayor John Wharton at the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding in Richmond for the $30m plant.
Green Day Energy founder Brad Carswell and Richmond Shire Council Mayor John Wharton at the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding in Richmond for the $30m plant.

A federal funding injection well help kickstart a ground-breaking project at Richmond to turn the noxious prickly acacia weed into a valuable carbon-neutral energy source.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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