Firm looks to Latrobe Valley for synthetic fuel production.


A company has applied for a mining licence in the Latrobe Valley, in Victoria's east, to excavate brown coal to make synthetic fuel.
Monash Energy wants to establish a new brown coal mine in the Flynn area.
It hopes to build a plant to turn coal into gas and then store the carbon dioxide underground.
The company has a 10-year plan to produce 60,000 barrels of synthetic fuel a day.
The company's Scott Hargreaves says a demonstration plant would be built near Loy Yang.
"The ultra-clean synthetic diesel that we produce is extremely environmentally friendly because it contains virtually no elements of sulphur and other pollutants, but more to the point it opens up the brown coal fields of the Latrobe Valley as a potential transport fuel source for Australia going forward," he said.
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