Kalbar’s addition of centrifuges is a desperate attempt to divert attention from their inadequate and erroneous initial water balance calculations. (Typical shoddy work we’ve come to expect.)
We estimate the centrifuges and other ‘amendments’ to their plans will add an extra $100 million to an already marginal project – and that’s without allowing for rehabilitation! (Where do you think they’ll be trying to cut corners?)
All submitters were given a ridiculously short amount of time to respond to the centrifuge proposal. Some of those submissions are attached.
To its credit, East Gippsland Shire Council hired Ausenco to do a review. The original review was quite scathing and indicated a number of issues, including the likelihood that Kablar could well end up needing 15 rather than 8 centrifuges. Ausenco identified many other issues. Then surprise, surprise, they presented the shire with an (unsolicited) review of their report, claiming that they had suddenly found themselves conflicted due to a subsidiary doing work for Kablar Operations PL. Their revised review is tepid and unreliable and demonstrates how much a firm can manoeuvre and use ommissions or weasel words to avoid giving a full picture of the situation.
We have attached a comparison between Ausenco’s two reports. Tell us what you think. What is particularly galling is Ausenco’s claim to have relied on information in Kalbar’s documents that weren’t even lodged with the IAC before the closing date for supplementary submissions.
We think the Shire should be demanding its money back?