On 2 June 2016 Desmond John Thomas Euen will be holding a “summit” at the Returned Servicemen's Memorial Club in Casino NSW.
This A “Key” Nation Building Infrastructure Plan Summit holds the promise of containing more spin than the federal election campaign.
Euen appears
to have sent out many invitations to attend and has listed the following invitees
on various websites:
Local Yagel & Bundjalung Land Council Representatives
Supply Nation
(Indigenous Business Development)
Mr Lester
Rogers (General Manager of Moree Shire Plains Council)
Tamworth Mayor
Mr Col Murray
Mayor Richie
Williamson (Clarence Valley Council)
Regional
Development Australia RDANI
Regional
Development Australia (Mid North Coast NSW)
Liverpool
Council South Western Sydney
Australian
Rail Association
Australian
Industry Group
Riverina
Inland Rail Alliance Group.
He has also
listed a changing kaleidoscope of presenters/keynote speakers.
Starting
with:
[https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pihba-eW1hwJ:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/announcement-create-new-policy-government-des-euen+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au,
accessed 21 May 2016]
Which changed
to this:
[http://www.aid-australia.com.au/?s=summit,
accessed 21 May 2016]
Des Euen’s
grand plans get little media coverage in the Northern Rivers and what it does
must give this Queensland fantasist little comfort.
This is an
example of the Clarence Valley’s enthusiasm for a coal loading facility in the
Clarence River estuary, published on the front page of The Daily Examiner on 27 May 2014:
The
idea of establishing the Port of Yamba as the centre of a massive
transport hub on the northern NSW coast has surfaced again.
The
proposal, labelled the YPR Project, is the brainchild of Desmond John Thomas Euen,
the managing director of the $1, one share company Australian Infrastructure
Developments.
It
aims to create a transport network linking the coalfields in the north-west of
the state to an international port in Yamba, all funded by private equity.
The
YPR website claims it will be ready to make a big announcement next month.
"YPR
(AUST) Pty Ltd is currently in dialog with the relevant departments of both the
NSW and Federal Government."
"THE
company expects to be in position to submit development plans and financial
endorsements by June 2014," it read.
The
news has sparked alarm in the conservation movement, with Lock the Gate
activists promising to fight any attempts to set up infrastructure for a
massive port in the Clarence River estuary.
But
an expert in the field believes the "common sense test" rules it out.
Harwood
Marine managing director Ross Roberts said he had been following Mr Euen's
plans but had spotted some major flaws.
"Anyone
can come up with big ideas and put them forward," he said. "But when
they do, they have to pass the common sense test.
"The
first thing you ask is: who is going to pay for it and then why would you want
to do it?"
Mr
Roberts said the current economy was contracting, so finding people willing to
stump up the amount of money required would be hard.
"The
other question is why?" he said. "In 1990 there were 22 ships
operating out of the port, now there are none. That has to tell you something."
Mr
Roberts, who does marine industry business around the world, said the Clarence
estuary contained 100 islands and nowhere on the planet had he seen an attempt
to create a huge port in such an area.
"Dealing
with floods would be the first worry," he said. "Do they build up all
the islands by a metre? Then where does that water go in flood?"
Mr Euen claims
to be in talks with Federal and NSW government departments, but these claims
seem exaggerated.
Last
year Mr Euen met with a senior policy adviser from the office of
Duncan Gay, the NSW Minister for Roads and Ports.
The
minister's office said a senior staff member met with Mr Euen, who
signalled an intention to submit a proposal, but did not receive the ministry's
in-principal support.
The
Daily Examiner contacted Mr Euen, who said he would be happy to outline
the plans at "a mutually convenient time".
A sample of unfavourable
comments left under the online article:
Fedup - Junction
Hill
NO,NO,NO. In my opinion
if this was to go ahead Yamba would be ruined. Maybe Mr Euen should look at why
vessels have left the port. It would not have anything to do with siltation
would it? Just take a look at what has happened in QLD with their coal loader
and the subsequent pollution of the Great Barrier Reef. Who has the money to
build this or is he in discussions with the Chinese who are after the CSG and
anything else they can get their hands on.
yambaman - Yamba
Hmm, fantasy indeed, the
day this is approved is the day I blow up Oyster Channel bridge!
BigUglyWaz - Waterview
Heights
Does anyone really think
this is something more than a dream?
Have a look at the YPR website, google a few things and tell me you can see any of this happening, forget the cost involved, and the environmental destruction.
Port of Yamba Depths. "Shipping channel depths are maintained at 4.0 metres"
"..... the deepening of the Suez Canal from 18 m (60ft) to 20 m (66ft) in 2009 permits most capesize vessels to pass through it."
Capesize bulk carriers. "Due to their large dimensions and deep draughts, capesize ships are suitable to serve only large ports with deep water terminals in the world. As a result, they can serve a comparatively small number of ports in the world."
Probably going to need a little dredging to get those to carriers into the Clarence.
Maybe Clive can get onto this, something to spend his billions on after he finishes the Titanic II?
Have a look at the YPR website, google a few things and tell me you can see any of this happening, forget the cost involved, and the environmental destruction.
Port of Yamba Depths. "Shipping channel depths are maintained at 4.0 metres"
"..... the deepening of the Suez Canal from 18 m (60ft) to 20 m (66ft) in 2009 permits most capesize vessels to pass through it."
Capesize bulk carriers. "Due to their large dimensions and deep draughts, capesize ships are suitable to serve only large ports with deep water terminals in the world. As a result, they can serve a comparatively small number of ports in the world."
Probably going to need a little dredging to get those to carriers into the Clarence.
Maybe Clive can get onto this, something to spend his billions on after he finishes the Titanic II?
EmmaB – Yamba
Has anyone looked closer
at this crazy plan? It can be found at http://www.ypraust.com.au/project-1-p....
Mr. Euen is expecting that ships of Post-Panamax and Capesize will come into his proposed port.
Post-Panamax ships are larger than 294,13 m (965 ft) long, 32,31 m (106 ft) wide and have draughts in excess of 12,04 m (39.5 ft).
Capesize ships are very large and ultra large cargo vessels with a capacity over 150,000 DWT. They are categorised under VLCC,ULCC, VLOC and ULOC and can be as large as 400,000 DWT or even more. They serve regions with largest deepwater terminals in the world and are primarily used for transporting coal and iron ore. Because of their giant size, they are suitable to serve only a small number of ports with deepwater terminals.
See: http://maritime-connector.com/wiki/sh...
grippy - Yamba
Mr. Euen is expecting that ships of Post-Panamax and Capesize will come into his proposed port.
Post-Panamax ships are larger than 294,13 m (965 ft) long, 32,31 m (106 ft) wide and have draughts in excess of 12,04 m (39.5 ft).
Capesize ships are very large and ultra large cargo vessels with a capacity over 150,000 DWT. They are categorised under VLCC,ULCC, VLOC and ULOC and can be as large as 400,000 DWT or even more. They serve regions with largest deepwater terminals in the world and are primarily used for transporting coal and iron ore. Because of their giant size, they are suitable to serve only a small number of ports with deepwater terminals.
See: http://maritime-connector.com/wiki/sh...
grippy - Yamba
Just remembered you have
the sacred Aboriginal reef at Yambas mouth.
Who will blow that up?
Who will blow that up?
JohnHancocks – Maclean
I won't be parting with
any of my savings for such a scheme - nor would I advise anyone else to
contribute a cent toward anything connected to it.
Not that Mr.
Euen doesn’t have a gift for convincing the gullible, as this excerpt from a Queensland
Bauxite Limited 4 March 2016 announcement
demonstrates:
[http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20160304/pdf/435lqnp45v0yyd.pdf]
I wonder if Queensland Bauxite can hear the laughter coming from south of the QLD-NSW border?
For readers who have never sighted Des Euan's unrealistic and ever expanding grand plan for Goodwood, Chatsworth and Palmers islands, as well as for lands on the Iluka side of the Clarence River estuary and the Mororo district, here it is all neatly laid out:
For readers who have never sighted Des Euan's unrealistic and ever expanding grand plan for Goodwood, Chatsworth and Palmers islands, as well as for lands on the Iluka side of the Clarence River estuary and the Mororo district, here it is all neatly laid out:
http://www.aid-australia.com.au/project-1/
UPDATE
Facebook Clarence Forum:
John
Hagger
I am
told that the plan includes:
The removal of the existing breakwater to open up the river and
Incorporating Chatsworth, Harwood and Gilbert Islands into the Port complex
The apparent goal is to become the biggest Port in Australia.
The claims include:
25% Australian Infrastructure Development shareholding by 1st Nations groups.
Current guarantee of 51.2 Billion Dollars funding.
The support of Clarence Valley Council and other Councils.
That Clarence Valley Council was represented at a recent joint Council meeting
in Namoi and voted in favour of the proposal.
Three (3) letters of support from Mayor Richard on CVC letterhead.
Des Euen has promised to send copies of the above claims.
He has also promised that the Port would not be used for Coal or Gas.
To date none of the promised papers have arrived.
Letter from Clarence
Valley Council Mayor Richie Williamson to John Hagger posted on Clarence
Forum 24 May 2016:
“Dear
Mr. Hagger,
Thank you for your email regarding the Australian Infrastructure Development
(AID) letter of support and whether it was signed by me.
It
seems the letter (which was signed by me in 2011) is being used to grossly
misrepresent the truth as the letter is about a different proposal all
together. I also draw your attention to the top of the letter, dated 11/2/2011,
which thanks Mr Euen for presenting his proposal, which was “The Trans Seaport
Eastern Integrated Land Proposal” my recall was that this proposal was about
transporting containers via the road network to and from the Port of Yamba from
Port Kembla and Brisbane, hence the reference to the Pacific Highway upgrade
and other road transport businesses that council had worked with in the past.
The letter does not support this proposal, but the larger “transport hub” idea
that I know you have also supported in the past.
The
letter is in no way supporting the current AID proposal around rail from inland
NSW to the Port of Yamba. Any claim by AID of my support is strongly rejected
by me; in fact, I have been completely opposed to the rail proposal from the
first time I heard of it.
Please
see the links below as an example;
I
stress Council has given no written letter of support to the present AID
proposal and would be, in my view, highly unlikely to provide such a letter.
I also
note the claim that; “I and/or a council officer attended a meeting recently in
the Namoi district regarding the current AID proposal” is completely untrue and
false.
I hope
this clarifies this matter.
Richie"
The original
list of invitees to the Euen “summit” posted at Linked in,
courtesy of Google
Cache on 11 May 2016:
Deputy
Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce MP
The Hon
Darren Chester MP the Federal Minister for Transport and Regional Development
Leader
of the Opposition Bill Shorten MP
The Hon
Anthony Albanese MP Shadow Minister for Transport and Infrastructure
[
this would be an opportune time for both parties to show bipartisan support for
private enterprise funded regional and nation building infrastructure
development]
Premier
of NSW The Hon Mike Baird MP and/or NSW Deputy Premier
NSW
Minister for Regional Development and Infrastructure Andrew Constance MP
NSW
Trade and Investment
Transport
for NSW
INNSW
IA
(Infrastructure Australia)
ACTU
President Ged Kearney
National
Farmers Federation
NSW
Farmers Association
Qld
Farmers Association
Victorian
Farmers Association
Riverina
Inland Rail Alliance Group
Namoi
Cotton Farmers and other Regional Industry peak bodies as they come to hand.
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