It is understood offers had been made to a total of 110 projects proposed by more than 100 firms, including Rheem Australia ($1.5m), Austral Bricks (three projects worth almost $14m), Boral Cement, Visy Packaging, Amcor Packaging, Arnotts Biscuits and the Kilcoy Pastoral Company, which had been promised a total of $3.6m to reduce methane emissions from its meat processing plant and carbon emissions from its refrigeration. Other companies promised grants were Downer EDI, CSR Building Products, Holden, Electrolux, Buderim Ginger, Laminex, Pfizer and Goodman Fielder as well as many smaller bakeries and food and wine companies. The $53m was set to co-fund projects worth a total of almost $169m. They would have abated 2,700 kilotonnes of carbon. Some of the companies planned to use the money to restructure their operations and close older plants, some to change lighting or electricity generation, some to improve insulation or cooling plants.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 01:59:43 +0000
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