Ross Fox, the leader of FWO’s Planning and Environment Law team, met with engineers and planning consultants in the Hunter Valley region last week to discuss plans to convert an existing coal-fired Power Station into a waste-fired Power Station (such project are known as ‘Energy from Waste’). Energy from Waste is an emerging technology and industry in Australia and the environmental and planning pathway to gain approval for these projects is complex. The project to convert an existing Power Station may prove to be the first of its kind in Australia.
