Re: Rubbish to Cessnock.

["Ben O'Regan" <ben@emiratespark.com.au>]

Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
>On the ABC news tonite (25/3/) was an article about transporting rubbish
from
>Sydney to a proposed rubbish dump in Cessnock in the Hunter Valley.
>Without wishing to get into the merits / otherwise of doing this , the
article
>indicated that the rubbish ,all 12 million tonnes of it per annum , would
be
>trucked from Sydney to Cessnock.
>Surely this is an ideal purpose for rail.
>How many trucks will be needed to transport 12 million tonnes per annum.
>A bloody lot.
>
>cheers
>MD
>


A few months ago there was a proposal put to Muswellbrook council to use the
Muswellbrook No. 1 mine for this same purpose. The proposal was to use rail
from Sydney to M'bk then trucks from Mb'k yard to old mine site.

Everyone was pretty keen on the idea at the time, but haven't heard much
more about it since.

Cheers & Regards

Ben O'Regan