along with sequestration, this technology offer opportunities well beyond the fossil natural gas production process. Further, this initiative directly minimizes community risks by: maintaining a diversity of energy supply chains; minimising infrastructure investment; by using an known and versatile product (natural gas); and, minimizing development of “consumer” technologies. Conclusion The Pilbara region has had a charmed life in modern times, and the international regional state and local communities have been significant beneficiaries of exploitation of its natural resources and the sweat equity of a multitude of intrepid pioneers. It may have completed an almost clean sweep of the economic lotteries with LNG and iron ore, as well as the possibility of exploitation of on-shore unconventional natural gas resources. However the region is subject to many of the woes of been a resource based economic community. The Pilbara 2050 report highlights two divergant visions of the future. The general conclusion seems that there is an opportunity to build sustainability into the region, which requires some significant action by all those responsible for governance, and past and present beneficiaries, to ensure that the region is able to reach its potential: a networked Pilbara. Curtin University and CUSP are actively researching a variety of opportunities to help enable this vision become reality.
along with sequestration, this technology offer opportunities well beyond the fossil natural gas production process. Further, this initiative directly minimizes community risks by: maintaining a diversity of energy supply chains; minimising infrastructure investment; by using an known and versatile product (natural gas); and, minimizing development of “consumer” technologies. Conclusion The Pilbara region has had a charmed life in modern times, and the international regional state and local communities have been significant beneficiaries of exploitation of its natural resources and the sweat equity of a multitude of intrepid pioneers. It may have completed an almost clean sweep of the economic lotteries with LNG and iron ore, as well as the possibility of exploitation of on-shore unconventional natural gas resources. However the region is subject to many of the woes of been a resource based economic community. The Pilbara 2050 report highlights two divergant visions of the future. The general conclusion seems that there is an opportunity to build sustainability into the region, which requires some significant action by all those responsible for governance, and past and present beneficiaries, to ensure that the region is able to reach its potential: a networked Pilbara. Curtin University and CUSP are actively researching a variety of opportunities to help enable this vision become reality.
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