A podcast discussion explores a proposed $3 billion urea fertiliser plant in Southland by Victorian Hydrogen, highlighting its potential to boost agricultural self-sufficiency, address global supply chain vulnerabilities, and achieve carbon neutrality—while raising concerns about
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I wouldn't think so. No, it shouldn't get taxpayer money, but in all seriousness, I know that the sale GP is a big tourism winner for Auckland, but I guess you've got to cut your cloth to suit in these tough times. Look, this is quite an exciting story. I don't know if it will sail, so to speak, but there's an Aussie or a Victorian-based Aussie company called Victorian Hydrogen and Ammonia Industries Limited and they want to build a $3 billion urea plant down in Southland. They're going to make 1.5 million tonnes a year of urea fertiliser. That'll use 3 million tonnes a year of lignite. night down in Southland. They've got heaps of it down there. But here's the key one. It would make New Zealand's agricultural sector fully self-sufficient in nitrogen fertiliser. Remembering nitrogen fertiliser grows half the food in the world and a third of the world's urea at the moment or nitrogen fertilisers coming through the Strait of Hormuz. So we do really have some issues there. So they're going to burn the lignite, make it into gas and then make it into to urea. They're going to build a factory that will hopefully be carbon neutral or carbon positive even. I spoke to the executive director, Alan Blood, on the show today. They're seeking fast track consenting from Tua Shane Jones. He'll love this, obviously, digging it up and damming it up is really his thing. They're committed to mitigating greenhouse gas impacts, as I said. Now, there is a wee bit of history around this solid energy investigator. He gave it a similar lignite to gas plan in Southland way back in 2013, but dropped it. Now, the reason he's doing this in New Zealand rather than Australia is because, in his words, the woke Victorian Labor government blocked the coal to urea project. There is one up and running though in Zambia that was commissioned in 2025. And apparently it's going great guns. Look, if they can make this thing carbon neutral and not have the detrimental effect on the environment, why wouldn't you do it? Why wouldn't you be in boots and all?
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