'Green' energy created from Sydney's waste

The Clyde Transfer Terminal has moved over 1 million tonnes of mixed solid waste from councils and commercial contractors in the Sydney metropolitan area to the Veolia Environmental Services’s Woodlawn Bioreactor, near Canberra, since 2005. Full operation of the bioreactor’s first generator commenced in February 2008 producing viable ‘green’ energy, produced from methane gas created by the waste. Energy Australia uses this energy to power homes in NSW. Veolia is also undertaking mine rehabilitation works and progressing with a wind farm, aquaculture and horticulture projects at the site, the company said.

UWS maintains its presence at Nirimba

The University of Western Sydney will maintain a presence at its Nirimba campus, in Blacktown, following the last year's announcement that it would cease its business studies undergraduate program there due to falling demand. As part of an expansion of the UWSCollege's pathway programs, the first year of some of UWS’s most popular undergraduate degrees will be conducted there. UWS believes consolidating and expanding diploma courses at Nirimba would attract more students and would enable UWS to better assist students in transition to university. UWSCollege would be housed at Nirimba and Macquarie Boys High School, adjacent to the Parramatta campus.

Major project proposed at Penrith

GPT proposes to establish a manufacturing, warehouse and distribution facility on 53,910 square metres of land in the GPT warehouse and distribution complex, in Erskine Park, to develop a process facility for liquid groceries, dry mixes, a bulk storage facility and other associated infrastructure. The Department of Planning has the proposal on exhibition until June 23.

Major project at Macquarie University

Macquarie University seeks to rezone and list the campus as a state significant site. It seeks approval of 400,000 square metres of commercial floor space, 61,200 square metres of academic floor space, an additional 3450 beds within the university housing precinct, infrastructure upgrading and landscaped open spaces integrated with the pedestrian and cycle network. The Department of Planning has the proposal on exhibition until June 23.