{"id":16232,"date":"2017-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/xenophon-s-plan-to-save-pt-augusta\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:00:00","slug":"xenophon-s-plan-to-save-pt-augusta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/xenophon-s-plan-to-save-pt-augusta\/","title":{"rendered":"Xenophon\u2019s plan to save Pt. Augusta"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Senator Nick Xenophon says he has a plan to clean up the fly ash plaguing Pt. August &#8212; and create 500 local jobs at the same time.<\/h3>\n<p>Senator Xenophon is urging the government to engage a NSW business called Nu-Rock that converts industrial waste into building products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey turn the fly ash into bricks and building products at about half the cost of conventional building products,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got this technique that is quite revolutionary, it uses a chemical bonding process.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/301126649&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But Senator Xenophon said the government had shown little interest in his idea\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has the potential to create 500 direct jobs to mine the fly ash. So far the state government has sent it off to a steering committee and nothing has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he said, \u201cAmericans are falling over themselves\u201d to use the Nu-Rock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is it we\u2019ve got an Australian home-grown innovation\u2026 it can\u2019t get a leg up here in Australia?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/nasa-has-spotted-something-heading-towards-earth\"><strong>NASA SPOTS MYSTERY OBJECT HEADING TOWARDS EARTH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/videos\/is-there-a-twist-in-the-shocking-video-of-2-yr-old-saving-his-twin-brother\"><strong>NOTICE SOMETHING FISHY ABOUT THE VIDEO OF A 2-YR-OLD SAVING HIS TWIN?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Nick Xenophon says he has a plan to clean up the fly ash plaguing Pt. August &#8212; and create 500 local jobs at the same time. Senator Xenophon is urging the government to engage a NSW business called Nu-Rock that converts industrial waste into building products. \u201cThey turn the fly ash into bricks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-16232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Xenophon\u2019s plan to save Pt. 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