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Rubenna vs people power
Race the Rubeena had a great turnout this year, hitting capacity at 300 entrants mid-last week, despite the event’s cancellation because of COVID-19 in 2020. People sprinted, ran, jogged, walked and everything in between to try and beat the historic Rubeena — the oldest boat on Victoria’s boating register — from Longford Swing Bridge to the Port of Sale. This year the race, which raises money for Central Gippsland Health and Sale Rotary Club’s community projects, included two dragon boats manned by the newly-formed Gippsland Water Dragons, who paddled the five kilometres back to the Port of Sale along the Thomson River and Flooding Creek. More in Friday’s Gippsland Times.
Photo: John Morgan
New hydrogen facility Liz Bell
There are plans to build a commercial large-scale hydrogen production facility at Port Anthony near Barry Beach.
AUSTRALIA’S first independentlyowned, commercial large-scale hydrogen production facility will be built near Barry Beach, as part of the race to meet rising power demands with renewables and clean energy. The development would cement Gippsland’s place as a renewable energy investment hub, with carbon storage, solar and wind projects already in planning across the region. Infinite Blue Energy and Port Anthony Renewables have established a joint venture,Arrowsmith Southeast, to investigate the development and
construction of a green hydrogen project at Port Anthony, just south of Wellington Shire. The hydrogen will be extracted from biomass, although the joint venture has not gone into detail about where this would be sourced. Port Anthony executive chairman Ben Anthony said the traditional energy sector was entering into an extended period of planned decommissioning of its aging oil and gas industry infrastructure, and production levels in Bass Strait were declining. He said the Arrowsmith Southeast project would be a global industry-leading showcase, representing “a new age handover” from traditional high carbon
industry to technologically advanced, decarbonised green sustainability “As part of this handover, the region will continue to play its important role in supporting Victoria’s needs whilst completely decarbonising existing activities that have long been a cornerstone of this region,” he said. Mr Anthony said the Port Anthony site and the immediate area had historically provided direct employment for hundreds of people, the result being a region boasting people with expertise and the “fortitude” to provide benefits to the state of Victoria and Australia. Port Anthony Renewables recently became a partner in one of the 13 Continued page 2
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