The plant was closed in 1952 and whilst much of the old buildings have been demolished, there is still a great deal of remains of the plant still evident.
There is a regular stream of people coming to view the works on a special tour running on Saturday afternoons at 02:00 pm. For details go the Tour page.
Glen Davis Works
So why are not going back to Glen Davis and start making petrol from shale oil? As america has enough oil now from shale which BHP has a plant doing this in Alaska?
As when i travelled by train from New York to Los Angeles we saw tankers rail stored at all spare rail sidings . This would make is self sufficient on oil and reduce our countries bill.
To be honest Ian unless all oil shale deposits were mined, there is not enough volume at GD to be productive.
It is also situated at the head of the Colo River, a wild river, situated in a wilderness, which terminates in Sydney waters. The environmental impacts would not be acceptable. There was heavy contamination from previous mining practices there.