Environmental management
Ambre Energy aims to use the latest technology and approaches to minimise the impact of its proposed operations on the environment and residents in surrounding areas.
These will include:
- choosing a site that has optimal coal for conversion to liquid fuels that is relatively close to the surface
- conducting comprehensive environmental studies on water resources, climate, land management, geology and soils, air quality, greenhouse emissions, flora and fauna, transport, noise, community impacts and visual amenity
- mining several hundred hectares at any time and progressively rehabilitating land to its pre-mining use. This approach will contain the disturbance to the site and enable rehabilitation to commence as early as possible
- producing cleaner emissions than a normal coal-fired power station
- designing the facility to be a zero-liquids discharge facility which maximises the re-use of water from the coal-to-liquids process
- minimising all air emissions from the facility
- capturing a significant proportion of the high purity carbon dioxide produced in the gasification process and safely venting it onsite or using it for other industrial purposes
- producing unleaded petrol which will have no sulphur and will require no additional refining prior to use.
