The Gangarri Solar Project
A solar farm that generates enough electricity to power 50,000 homes. Scroll down and you’ll discover more about the Gangarri Solar Project.
Discover more about the solar project.
Why solar?
This investment is one of the examples of how Shell is building a cleaner, global power business. Shell has operated in Australia for 119 years and the country continues to be a priority market for Shell’s investment in New Energies. The project will form an important part of our growing power business, as well as generate electricity to offset the carbon from Shell’s QGC project.
Size and energy production
Gangarri is a 120 megawatt solar energy project, located in inland Queensland. It will generate solar power from about 330,000 photovoltaic panels that turn sunlight into electricity – enough to run 50,000 homes. It will reduce emissions by around 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum.
Location and timeline
The solar farm is located in Woleebee, not far from the town of Wandoan in the Western Downs region of Queensland and is being built on land owned by Shell’s QGC business. The project is expected to be completed in early 2021.
The Significance of the name Gangarri
The solar project has been named “Gangarri” by Traditional Owner group, of the project area, the Iman people.
WATCH: LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MEANING OF “GANGARRI” AND HOW THE IMAN PEOPLE SEE THIS PROJECT
Find out the meaning of ‘Gangarri’ | Shell’s new solar project
Title: Shell – Gangarri Announcement
Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds
Description: This ad is used to show Shell’s new solar farm located in Wandoan, QLD. It shows the benefits of the solar farm, and how their solar farm will better the environment.
SHELL – Gangarri Announcement
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Filming a man in a warehouse like room – with white walls – speaking to the camera.
[TEXT DISPLAYS] Brad Burke
General Manager, External & Government Relations
Shell Australia
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Brad Burke: At Shell, we want to make a positive contribution to society and
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Image of man fades out, as image of grass and nature fades in.
[TEXT DISPLAYS] Shell is building its first commercial-scale solar project in Queensland.
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Brad Burke: there is no more important part of that than the traditional owners of the land we operate.
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More trees are now shown faintly in the background
[TEXT DISPLAYS] The project is being built on Iman land, in partnership with the Iman people.
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Picture is now a close up and out of focus video on hay-like grass.
[TEXT DISPLAYS] The project has been named Gangarri.
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Video now shows man in the white room
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Man: the meaning of Gangarri is sunlight,
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Video now captures the land in which the project is taking place. The land looks quite dry, with trees and shrubbery that fill the video frames.
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Man: we came up with that word because the project was all about sun and the ray of the sun, the energy of the sun.
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Video now is unfocused again – to highlight the text on the screens.
[TEXT DISPLAYS] Gangarri
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Man: Gan meaning light, and Garri meaning sun.
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Video shows traditional indigenous art with white text over the top
[TEXT DISPLAYS] To commemorate the land the project will be built on, the Iman people have developed a piece of artwork – by artist, Samantha Booth.
[Voice]
Samantha Booth: The landscape from where we all come from pretty much will see all the wattle trees and
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Samantha Booth is talking to the camera in the white room. She is captured to be in the room with other people as you see parts of their arms.
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Samantha Booth: real nice landscape out there, felt good doing something to represent our people.
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Video now moves to another man sitting next to Samantha in the room.
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Man on screen: So we don’t just use one part of the country, we use all the country.
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5 adults are now sitting around the piece of artwork Samantha Booth had done. One being Samantha herself, and another being Brad Burke.
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Man on left of screen: Our culture it never dies, it is always there. Our language is asleep, it just needs to be woken again.
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Close up of bark on a tree
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Man continuing his sentence: and these are things that our own country, we are looking to do
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[TEXT DISPLAYS] Revitalising language.
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Man continuing his sentence: revitalise language
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[TEXT DISPLAYS] Putting more Iman people in employment on Country
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Man continuing his sentence: Putting more Iman people in employment on Country
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[TEXT DISPLAYS] Opportunities for Iman people to reconnect with Country and culture.
[Voice]
Man continuing his sentence: projects where Iman people are going back out on country and practicing their culture and revitalising and rebuilding
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Video of the 5 people in the room.
[Voice]
Man continuing his sentence: and revitalising and rebuilding
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Close up of man in teal t-shirt.
[Voice]
Man in teal t-shirt: To me, I thought the best way Shell, or any company, will deal with traditional owners is to actually understand where they come from, understand their culture, their identity, their spiritual beliefs.
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Brad Burke is now in the room by himself, talking to the camera.
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Brad Burke: What we’d like to have, is relationship that’s built on respect, and the creation of those opportunities over the years and decades to come.
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Filming the land in which the project will take place, with a drone from the sky.
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White background
[TEXT DISPLAYS]
{Shell logo}
#MakeTheFuture
C Shell International Limited
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