Collie (Western Australia)

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The main street of Collie
State :  Australia State : Western Australia Founded : 1897
Coordinates : 33 ° 22 ′  S , 116 ° 9 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 22 ′  S , 116 ° 9 ′  E Height : 204  m
Residents : 7,192 (2016)
Time zone : AWST (UTC + 8) Postal code : 6225 LGA : Collie Shire
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Collie is a city in the South West region of the Australian state of Western Australia , 213 kilometers south of the capital Perth and 59 kilometers inland from the regional capital and port city of Bunbury . The city is located near the confluence of the Harris River and the Collie River , in the middle of dense Jerryhl forest and in Western Australia's only coal-mining area. At the last census in 2006, the city had 7,084 inhabitants.

Collie is mainly known as the center of coal mining, but it also has industry, agriculture and tourism. The Muja Power Station is to the east of the city and to the west of it the Wellington Reservoir , a popular reservoir for fishing, swimming and boating.

The city was named after the river it lies on, which James Stirling named after Dr. Named Alexander Collie . He and William Preston were the first Europeans to explore the area in 1829.

Coal was discovered in the area by the shepherd George Marsh in the early 1880s . The coal mines were built in the late 1890s and in 1897 the city was surveyed and mapped.

Collie was once considered a "dirty mining town, " but on April 8, 2006, the town won the Australian Tidy Towns competition. Collie was named the Cleanest City in the State and the Northern Territory for its commitment to recycling, waste handling, city beautification, and community projects.

Economy and industry

The city of Collie is located in a sedimentary basin , the Perth Basin . In this sedimentary basin there is a section with coal deposits, the Collie Sub-basin . Collie plays a major role in electrical power generation in Western Australia with two coal mines and three power plants that use coal and gas to generate electricity.

Coal mines

The company Western Collieries builds in the mine Wesfarmers Premier Coal , which is about 22 km from Collie away, is about 4 million tons a year from. The hard coal from the Premier Coal mine supplies the Collie A Power Station with 1 to 1.2 million tons and the Muja Power Station with 2 million tons. The Kwinana Power Station on the west coast of Western Australia also receives coal from this mine. that the railroad transports there.

Australian Griffin Coal , part of the Griffin Energy group of companies, which ran into financial difficulties in 2010, was taken over in 2011 by Indian Lanco Infratech , which is expanding the infrastructure of Griffin Coal's mines and extracting around 4.5 million tons of coal annually. Lanco plans u. a. Transporting coal to Bunbury by rail. In 2010 the Muja mine was closed. An open coal mine south and west of the old Muja mine with a coal deposit of around 140 million tons is currently being developed.

Power plants

Muja Power Station

On April 21, 1966, the Muja Power Station , located 22 km east of Collie, opened its operations with eight coal turbines with a total capacity of 854 megawatts (MW) for generating electricity. In 2007 the coal turbines of this power plant were closed because of their carbon dioxide emissions and gas turbines were installed, which greatly reduced these emissions. and when the gas crisis in Western Australia occurred on June 3, 2008 due to the breakage of a natural gas pipeline and the destruction of the facilities on Varanus Island, this power plant had to be taken off the grid by June 23, 2008.

Another coal-fired power station near Collie is the Collie Power Station, 10 km away, with a capacity of 340 MW, which opened in 1999 and is now operated by the utility Verveenergie .

4.5 kilometers from the city, the first private coal-fired power station in Western Australia was opened by Griffin Energy , founded in 1997 , the Bluewaters Power Station .

schools

Collie has five elementary schools: Allanson Primary School, Fairview Primary School, Amaroo Primary School, Saint Brigid's Catholic College, and Wilson Park Primary School. There is also a secondary school, Collie Senior High School .

Tourism and facilities

The attractions in Collie include the Steam Locomotive Museum , the Collie Museum and the Wellington Reservoir . Green spaces include Soldier's Memorial Park and the Stockton Lake and Collie River next to it .

Collie also hosts the Kostecki Motorplex , the only regular motorsport event in Western Australia outside of the greater Perth area.

climate

Collie has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and cool, humid winters ( effective climate classification : "Csb")

Collie (Western Australia)
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     15th   31 13     14th   30th 13     24   27 12     48   23 9     126   19th 6th     180   16 5     179   15th 4th     141   16 5     100   18th 6th     65   21st 7th     32   25th 10     16   28 12 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: Climate statistics for Collie . Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Average Monthly Temperatures and Rainfall for Collie (Western Australia) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 30.5 30.1 27.3 23.1 18.9 16.3 15.1 16.3 18.1 20.7 24.8 28.3 O 22.4 Min. Temperature (° C) 13.2 13.1 11.5 8.7 6.3 5.0 4.2 4.5 5.8 7.4 9.7 11.7 O 8.4 Precipitation ( mm ) 14.8 14.2 23.6 48.2 125.9 180.3 179.4 140.6 99.9 64.5 32.1 16.0 Σ 939.5 Rainy days ( d ) 1.7 1.9 2.8 5.5 10.2 13.4 14.5 13.2 11.0 8.3 4.9 2.7 Σ 90.1 Source: Climate statistics for Collie . Australian Bureau of Meteorology

photos

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  Collie train station

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  Collie main street

Web links

Commons : Collie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Wellington National Park

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Collie (Urban Center / Locality) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
2. ^ ^{A b} History of Country Town Names - C - Collie . www.Landgate.wa.gov.au
3. ↑ 2006 Tidy Town Media Release . www.collie.wa.gov.au ( Memento from July 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ premiercoal.com.au : Location , in English, accessed 6 August 2011
5. ↑ premiercoal.com.au : Our Customers , in English, accessed 6 August 2011
6. ↑ griffincoal.com.au ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Our History , accessed June 18, 2016 
7. ↑ Perthnow.au : Paul Lampathakis: Coal giant Griffin Coal Mining in trouble , August 4, 2011, in English, accessed on August 6, 2011
8. ↑ griffincoal.com.au ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Proposed Muja South Mine , accessed June 18, 2016 
9. ↑ verveenergy.com.au ( Memento of the original dated August 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Muja , in English, accessed August 6, 2011  
10. ↑ carma.org : Highest CO2 Emitting Plants in the Region , in English, accessed on August 6, 2011
11. ↑ theaustralian.news.com.au ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : WA gas crisis poses threat to economy , June 12, 2008, in English, accessed August 6, 2011 
12. ↑ vervenergy.com ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Collie , in English, accessed August 6, 2011  
13. ↑ griffinenergy.com.au ( memento of February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ): Bluewaters Power Station , in English, accessed on August 6, 2011