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Funding helps secure hundreds of jobs in local sugar sector Australian Sugar Milling Council chief executive Mr David Pietsch said the funding would help secure 110 jobs in harvesting and field haulage operations and cane transportation otherwise at risk if cane cannot be transported to Isis Mill. Picture: Liana Turner News 7th Mar 2021 5:00 AM Premium Content Subscriber only Recent government funding has reportedly helped secure more than 600 direct and indir...

Workers in New York program who obeyed state’s Covid orders and stayed home could face big tax bill Updated Mar 04, 2021; Now, some of those workers could face large state income tax bills because they worked from home. Employees of companies in the Start-Up New York economic development program have been warned that because they worked from home they may have lost a promised exemption from paying any state income taxes. Empire State Development, the state’s economic development arm, sent ...

by Andrew Potts Premium Content Subscriber only A NEW state government taskforce is expected to investigate transforming the Gold Coasts northern cane fields into towns to help ease pressure on crowded established suburbs. It will run in conjunction with a council strategy to target the southern suburbs of Kirra, Coolangatta, Palm Beach and Bilinga for high-density development. The state government on Wednesday announced a new Growth Areas Delivery Team wou...

Share Company to Build State-of-the-Art Facility at Western New York Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Park in the Town of Alabama, Creating 68 Jobs  State Investment Supports the Governors Green Energy Program, Which Calls for $29 Billion in Green Energy Investments Across the State Complements "Finger Lakes Forward"—The Regions Comprehensive Strategy to Revitalize Communities and Grow the Economy WYSIWYG Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that leading alternativ...

Press release from Gov. Cuomo: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that leading alternative energy technology provider Plug Power will invest $290 million in the construction of a state-of-the-art green hydrogen fuel production facility and electric substation at the Western New York Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Park located in the Town of Alabama,

START-UP NYs tax-free incentive hits pandemic glitch Employees forced to work from home hit with state tax bills as Legislature tries to fix FacebookTwitterEmail COHOES— One of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s signature economic development programs has run into a pandemic-related tax problem. Now in its seventh year, with just over 300 companies involved, the START-UP NY program was created amid great fanfare to encourage new businesses to set up in the state. Under the program, start-ups that affiliat...

Rio Tinto: Rio spends over A$500 million with WA businesses at Tom Price mine Rio Tinto has to date awarded contracts valued at over $385 million (A$500 million) to local Western Australian and Pilbara Aboriginal businesses to support the latest development of its Greater Tom Price Operations. Construction of the Western Turner Syncline Phase 2 (WTS2) expansion commenced in early 2020 and to date more than 85 per cent of spending on the project has been awarded to Western Australian and Pilbara...

Rio Tinto to contribute $20 million to fund new hospital in Tom Price on February 26 2021 4:00 PM MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto will contribute $20 million (US$15 million) to the Western Australian Government to help fund a new hospital at Tom Price in the state’s Pilbara region. The partnership will help facilitate construction of a modern hospital expected to include an emergency department, inpatient ward and consulting rooms for visiting services. Local communities will...

An Albany-based fuel cell company, Plug Power, is again expanding in this region. If that name sounds familiar, it is because the company recently

Premium Content Subscriber only A proposed Yeppoon service station is at the centre of lengthy legal proceedings as the developers fight to have access from the Rockhampton-Yeppoon Rd, while state and local government planning authorities say it is too unsafe. Developers Retail Fuel Developments submitted plans to Livingstone Shire Council in 2017 for a 24-hour service station and retail warehouse at Red Lawn Dr, Yeppoon, on the vacant block of land on the corner of Rockhampton-Yeppoon Rd and T...