HEAD of environmental group Save Port Phillip Bay and Mornington Peninsula resident Marteen Koster is leading the fight to keep VOPAK’s regasification plant out of Port Phillip Bay. VOPAK, a Dutch multinational company and energy and gas tank storage provider is proposing to build and operate a regasification plant/floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) port in Port Phillip Bay 20 kilometres offshore from Avalon. According to the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning, VOPAK’s proposal will include; offshore floating storage regasification vessel, a subsea high pressure gas pipeline, two 20-kilometre long high voltage cables that connect offshore and onshore facilities, onshore…
Thursday, October 8
