Chris Pippos, Advocate: THE potential North-West project by a German multinational looking to invest hundreds of millions of dollars appears to include a silica plant based at the proposed Port Latta Industrial Park. Treasurer Michael Aird has remained tight-lipped about the details since returning from Europe where he sold the region as the best location – one of three shortlisted by the company globally – for its investment. It is understood the multinational, described by one mining source as “a big, low- flying duck certainly well known in Europe”, could establish itself at Port Latta, using the site’s available gas and electricity supplies. There are also plans to pipe water to the site. If it proceeds, the company would tap into Tasmania’s renewable energy and only use “residual product from harvesting” for its processing rather than native forests, the source said.Read more here
