> Am I ignoring something here, or couldn't they just lay railroad track then? It's not a heavily populated area. They'd need to either go directly through to

> Am I ignoring something here, or couldn't they just lay railroad track then? It's not a heavily populated area. They'd need to either go directly through to the port's yard, through half the port and with a new bridge over a river, or branch off of a closer yard (between cluden and stuart), cross through a creek and two highways. Former means enormous capex (if you can even get permitted and negotiate with the port), and latter means merely large but now you're at the mercy of traffic on the NCL. Nothing impossible, but I can see how the refinery would have started trucking 25 years ago (apparently it started in 1996) and scaled that up progressively. And then there's the bad news that this section of the NCL is not electrified, so you'd still be paying for your diesel and it would be completely unhelpful. Not to mention as the article notes: > Resource-poor Asian neighbors such as Japan and Korea are also counting on Aussie green hydrogen to help get them off fossil fuels in the decades ahead. This is a project / study from the parent company, per their own "our company page": > In early 2021 our sister company Ark Energy Corporation was established by Korea Zinc to decarbonise the energy supply of the group starting with Sun Metals.