Broadband Lost Opportunities: Gas and Broadband
1999/2000 saw the laying of the "Eastern Gas Pipeline" (EGP) - 795km from Longford in Victoria to Horsley Park in Sydney, at around $450M. It carries natural gas from Gippsland Basin (and Bass Strait?) and provides additional supply security to NSW. The mainline route is : close to the towns of Bairnsdale, Orbost and the Cann River, before turning north past Bombala and Cooma. From the eastside of the Snowy Mountain region, it travels northeast to the coast through Nowra, Port Kembla, Wilton and on to Horsley Park to its termination point on the outskirts of Sydney. Country Energy Gas is the NSW regional retailer. The Energy Networks Australia State Summary say this about the NSW country towns connected to Natural Gas: There are 24 210 km of reticulation mains serving 901 000 customers in the State’s major urban areas, and its large and small regional centres. Wagga Wagga, Tumut, Adelong, Cooma, Bombala and Gundagai, Albury Nowra, Bomaderry ...