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Effects Of Sydney And The Rest Of Australia's Natural Resources

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Sydney and the rest of Australia have many natural resources that all have positive and negative effects of itself. Sydney’s economy is resources dependent which means that if the resources in Australia were depleted, the Australian government would suffer. Coal, which Australia has a lot of, is mostly located in eastern half of the country, in places like Sydney. Only one third of the Australian coal is used in Australia, the rest of the coal is sold to places like Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Western Europe which helps the Australian government exponentially. Natural gas is also abundant in Australia but far away from urban areas like Sydney so they constructed a large pipeline system to transport the natural gas to Sydney to heat homes and other activities. Australia also contains one-third of all of the world’s uranium supply, which is how nuclear power is created. …show more content…

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