Enabled infrastructure supporting regional growth

ENABLED INFRASTUCTURE SUPPORTING REGIONAL GROWTH

PROSPERITY IN THE ISAAC

Development across the Isaac is reinforced by our key infrastructure and supply chains. Transportation nodes and their connections are scattered throughout the region providing access to world class distribution hubs via seaports, airports, roads and rail. The existing sophisticated services networks of electricity, gas, water supplies and telecommunications provide for the sustainable, efficient, reliable and affordable infrastructure systems enable our economic growth and fosters innovation.

AIR

MORANBAH AIRPORT

47,457

Passengers 1

1,446

total aircraft movements1

TOWNSVILLE

MACKAY

MORANBAH

EMERALD ROCKHAMPTON

BRISBANE

COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS

CLERMONT AERODROME

This facility provides further accessibility and serviceability to the regions industries as well as airplane landing areas at Nebo and St Lawrence. Visit isaac.qld.gov.au for more information.

ROADS RAIL

Coal is transported by Aurizon Limited, Pacific National and BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) Rail from mines to the four coal exporting ports in Queensland at Abbot Point, Hay Point, Gladstone, and Brisbane. Coal is also transported by rail to power stations at Stanwell and Gladstone, as well as various industrial users. The Central Queensland coal rail network, comprising the Newlands, Goonyella, Blackwater and Moura rail systems, is privately-owned and operated by Aurizon Limited. Rail services the Clermont Saleyards offering road and rail interchange, bi-weekly cattle trains and rail load out facilities.

Completed major rail upgrades include:

$130million

Goonyella Rail Expansion Project2

supporting the 11 million tonnes

per annum expansion of Hay Point Coal Services Terminal, and the $831 million Wiggins Island Rail Project to support the

27 million tonnes per annum

Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal development.

Isaac Regional Council maintains

4,500

kilometres of roads

of that 2,400km is sealed, unsealed roads are 2,100km3

That’s like driving from Moranbah to Perth! NORTH-SOUTH: BRUCE HIGHWAY

Critical north-south connection for both freight and passenger traffic, connecting Brisbane to Cairns and passing through Sarina, Mackay and Proserpine.

EAST-WEST: PEAK DOWNS HIGHWAY & BOWEN DEVELOPMENTAL ROAD

Peak Downs Highway connects Mackay to Clermont and serves Moranbah and Nebo. The highway is a key freight route for the Bowen Basin. The Bowen Developmental Road is a key link to the northern Bowen and Galilee Basins as an important freight function for the movement of commodities from the region’s farming and grazing areas.

29,556,334

tonnage of coal Port of Abbot Point (north of Bowen in Whitsunday region)4

3,177,892

tonnage of primary commodities include fuel, sugar, grain, magnetite, fertiliser, scrap metal and tallow Port of Mackay)4

98,323,067

tonnage of coal Port of Hay Point (includes Darlymple Bay)4

WATER NETWORK

The Isaac region’s access to water in an efficient, cost-effective and sustainable via a complex water and wastewater network that stretches across the region. Council is dedicated to achieving long-term outcomes which meet the expectations of our communities through the improvement of infrastructure, service delivery and products, including drinking water quality and recycled water opportunities. Council and its regional partners have completed a regional water strategy that identifies opportunities to unlock the economic value of the region’s existing water assets and to understand how water can support future economic prosperity.

Scan for more information on the Regional Water Strategy and Digital Infrastructure Study.

DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY

The digital infrastructure and capabilities of the region will be one of the strongest game-changers in the near future. Access to reliable, high-speed internet and mobile connectivity will become an increasingly important part of the Isaac region’s engagement with the digital economy and optimisation of existing industries like mining and agriculture. It is important to understand the significant effect of internet access to the innovation of businesses and the development of a modern, stable resident worker population. Council and its regional partners (GW3) are prioritising digital connectivity investment to ensure the region is at the forefront of the fourth industrial revolution. With a digital infrastructure study completed, the Isaac is in a prime position for future investment. This focus has seen the region positioned well to receive digital connectivity investment with more than $3.5 million awarded to Dysart and Moranbah township connectivity upgrades, $2.45 million for Clermont to Moranbah, including an abbatoir, and enterprise grade connectivity.

ELECTRICITY

The Isaac region is afforded by a highly versatile and resilient energy network system provides residents and businesses with an exceptionally reliable and secure power service, adapting in real time to the changing demand and supply signals. With the Isaac region in the midst of an energy revolution, significant opportunities exist for this rapid technological change as networks are to manage the safe and reliable integration of all these distributed energy resources and delivered into the grid. These new major generation projects ensure the opportunities presented by this evolution are maximised.