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Welcome to the website for the Gladstone Industry Leadership Group. Here you will find information about some of Gladstone's major industries and how you can help shape their future and that of our community.
Sign up to the site if you want to receive regular email updates from the Group or comment on any of our updates. Visit the library to download or view key documents and resources and go to commonly asked questions to learn about the issues that are most commonly raised with us. If you have other questions please contact us directly.
Industry recognises that the Gladstone community has an important role as watchdogs and critics of their performance. Satisfying your concerns is vital to Industry's long term future. As a result GILG's priorities are to improve Industry's community engagement, environmental transparency and accountability for their performance.
We will continuously develop this website and update information about license conditions, levels and potential impacts of Industry's emissions and local GILG events. So please check back regularly or contact us if you have a question.
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GILG’s year in review
Well over two thousand years ago a Greek philosopher called Heraclitus observed that, "There is nothing permanent except change." What was true then has proven to be the same for Gladstone's communities and industries in 2011.
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by Kurt Heidecker 16 Dec 2011, 11:27am
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Final CHAG report delivered
After the four years needed to complete one of Australia's most comprehensive air quality studies, the Clean and Healthy Air for Gladstone (CHAG) project team has delivered their final report. There are two key outcomes from this capstone report.
Firstly based on their rigorous assessment and more than 20 public contributing reports, the CHAG team was able to draw unequivocal conclusions about the quality of Gladstone's air.
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by Kurt Heidecker 2 Dec 2011, 6:36am
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Sister city insights
American President Eisenhower began the sister city movement in 1956. In this post-World War II climate thousands of people pledged to create a free and peaceful world through lasting friendships based upon closer inter-city relationships.
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by Kurt Heidecker 17 Nov 2011, 9:22pm
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Why does Gladstone have a Japanese sister city?
Given that China recently passed Japan as Australia's largest export destination, it's no wonder that Australia's press concentrates on the importance of China to Australia.
However in Queensland, Japan is still our largest trading partner. In 2010–11, Queensland's exports to Japan were valued at $11.1 billion. This represents 22.8% of Queensland's total exports. These exports were mostly made up of coal products ($6,560 million) and meat products ($1,302 million).
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by Kurt Heidecker 4 Nov 2011, 6:55pm
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Employment challenges for our school leavers
For all the talk in Gladstone of "jobs, jobs, jobs", a recent Queensland Education report paints a different picture for school leavers in our Central Queensland Gladstone school district.
Each year Education Queensland surveys the previous year's Year 12 cohort six months after they graduate and then compiles a "nextstep" report on their employment status. This year's "nextstep 2011" report for the Class of 2010 makes sobering reading.
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by Kurt Heidecker 7 Oct 2011, 6:01pm
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Industry performance snapshots for 2010
With so many demands in our busy lives it's no wonder that we feel like there's never enough time to get everything done.
That makes it hard to find the time to do the things that many of us may like to do. Like, for instance, find out how Gladstone Industry Leadership Group (GILG) members went in 2010.
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by Kurt Heidecker 30 Sep 2011, 8:28am
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Monitoring of grass fire smoke
I'm sure that you'd agree that over the past week the smoke from grass fires has been bad. I've found that where I live in Tannum Sands that it's much worse at night and in the early morning.
As shown by continuous air quality monitoring done by the Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM), this is the same across Gladstone and in other towns such as Brisbane, Mackay and Townsville where DERM also monitors air quality.
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by Kurt Heidecker 23 Sep 2011, 8:35am
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Change of guard at CA
After five years at the helm of Cement Australia's Fishermans Landing plant, Kevin Doyle has handed over responsibility to the plant's new Operations Manager, Simon Rice.
The Board of the Gladstone Industry Leadership Group (GILG) would like to publically thank Kevin for his loyal support and insightful contributions to the Board over the past nearly three years since GILG was established. As a founding member of the GILG Board, Kevin has seen many challenges and changes in Gladstone.
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by Kurt Heidecker 16 Sep 2011, 3:02pm
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Guy Fortin and BSL
Tucked away at the northern end of Boyne Island is Gladstone's largest and probably most complex industrial site, Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL).
BSL processes alumina to make the metal aluminium. All the alumina used by the plant is produced by Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) and transported from QAL to BSL using a 9.5 kilometre long conveyor system. BSL's aluminium is then produced in reduction lines that are over one kilometre long.
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by Kurt Heidecker 8 Sep 2011, 4:15pm
Orica and Stewart Wotton
Just because Orica's Yarwun plant doesn't have the same profile as the other world scale industries in Gladstone, don't let that mislead you. The Orica plant is a world leader and is crucial to many of our resource industries.
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by Kurt Heidecker 1 Sep 2011, 4:54pm
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GILG web site launched 01 May 2009 Consolidated NPI data and data source information published on web site 01 May 2009 EPA licences and plain English explanatory documents release on GILG web site. 14 May 2009 Launch of GILG's Environmental Transparency Framework 07 June 2009 Launch of GILG's Clean Air Strategy 01 August 2009 -
Kurt Heidecker
Chief Executive Officer (Gladstone Industry Leadership Group - 0438 184 476)Community Relations Advisory Committee
This Committee has a representative from each GILG member. It's Charter is to ensure that GILG related information is efficiently distributed in consistent, coordinated and integrated messages often using GILG member resources. (Gladstone Industry Leadership Group)GILG Environment Advisory Committee
This Committee has a representative from each GILG member. Its Charter is to provide easily comprehensible information about industry licences, their emissions, emission impacts and monitoring and licence breaches. (Gladstone Industry Leadership Group)Anthony Havers
Community Relations Advisory Committee Member (Rio Tinto Alcan - 1800 886 414)Courtney Brown
Community Relations Advisory Committee Member (Queensland Alumina Ltd - 1800 181 110)Fay Hill
Community Relations Advisory Committee Member (Orica - 4976 3597 )Gary Macnamara
Community Relations Advisory Committee Member (NRG Gladstone Operating Services - (07) 4976 5211)Victoria Elder
Community Relations Advisory Committee Member (Cement Australia - (07) 4970 1112)
