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A 2005 government report highlighted the state's vulnerability to rising oil prices. Queensland was the state to first to produce commercial oil, the first to find natural gas and the first to supply a capital city with natural gas by pipeline. It has Australia's largest onshore oil field, the Jackson oil field.
The 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill occurred off the coast of southeast Queensland, Australia on 11 March 2009, when 230 tonnes of fuel oil, 30 tonnes of other fuel and 31 shipping containers containing 620 tonnes of ammonium nitrate spilled into the Coral Sea, north of Moreton Bay during Cyclone Hamish. It happened after unsecured cargo on ...
Braemar Power Station, 2006. Oakey Power Station, 2016. These gas turbine power stations use gas combustion to generate some or all of the electricity they produce. Combined cycle plants include an open cycle gas turbine, plus a heat recovery steam generator that uses waste heat from the gas turbine to make steam to drive a steam turbine.
Sun Retail, the retail arm of Energex, was sold at auction to Origin Energy Ltd for A$1.2 billion. [8] The sale was formally effected in early 2007. Origin Energy purchased a customer base of approximately 800,000 from the New South Wales border to a line just north of the Brisbane River (mostly following Kedron Brook), whilst AGL Energy purchased a customer base of the remaining approximately ...
60 °F. 1,478.5 mm. 58.2 in. The Sunshine Coast is a peri-urban region in South East Queensland, Australia. It is the district defined in 1967 as "the area contained in the Shires of Landsborough, Maroochy and Noosa, but excluding Bribie Island ". [4] Located 100 km (62 mi) north of the centre of Brisbane in South East Queensland, on the Coral ...
Waterways. Howe Sound. Website. www.gibsons.ca. Gibsons is a coastal community of 4,758 in southwestern British Columbia, Canada on the Sunshine Coast, where the southwest bank of Howe Sound meets the Strait of Georgia. During its early history as a European-descended settlement, the town was a local centre for forestry and commercial fishing.
It has the third-lowest gas prices of any state, with an average cost of $3.122 per gallon compared to the national average of $3.609. The average cost of a night at a 3-star hotel is $108.31, the ...
The list of Sunshine Coast Region suburbs includes a range of suburbs, localities, towns and rural districts in South East Queensland, Australia, within the local government area of Sunshine Coast Region. On 1 January 2014, part of the region deamalgamated to re-establish the Shire of Noosa.