Questions over the future of Kwinana oil refinery

31-Aug-2011

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Western Australia appears to be dodging the collapse of Australia’s manufacturing sector, but it would be wise to keep an eye on one of the State’s most important businesses, the BP oil refinery at Kwinana.

Critical to the supply of petroleum products, including bitumen for roads, the Kwinana refinery is facing the same pressures as all processing facilities in a country being hit by a high exchange rate, cheap imports, rising labour costs, and rising taxes.

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BP Oil Refinery

C Elpitelli

Wake Up Australia, BP Refinery future has been decided, to close down a long time ago, like every thing else in Australia, we are told we are expensive and cannot compete with the Mighty ASIA, when will they our great reactive polititions understand that Australia is a expensive country to live and eat for Australians, More important when are we going to Import POLITICIANS, from ASIA, they are cheaper and Smarter then the ones we have. I say free trade for all, IMPORT polititians