Estimated Gladstone-based total project construction workforces...
This reflects committed and expected projects from over a year ago and is only construction workforce, not operational. The steel plant alone will have an operational workforce of 1800 and across all projects I have estimated 5,000 additional permanent jobs. In modelling done by CQU professor John Rolfe, he anticipates that for each job in industry, a further 2.8 jobs are created (teachers, accountants, retail etc). That would create a total of 19,000 additional permanent jobs in Gladstone. Add in children and non-working partners and that is a huge population increase in the next few years.
In 14 months since this graph was created additional projects have been announced:
1. Gas powerplant, 1000 more construction jobs on a $1.8 billion project
http://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/news/gas-power-plant-track/1377731/
2. Stocklands extension
http://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/news/more-space-shopping/1529797/
3. 2nd channel in Gladstone Harbour $400 million
http://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/news/new-channel-planned-gladstone/1558694/
4. 3TL coal terminal, $2.2 billion project
http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/Id/79287
5. Devine development $1.4 billion project
http://www.couriermail.com.au/reale...ide-of-inquiries/story-e6frequ6-1226346822368
There are also additional LNG trains that are likely to be added that aren't included in the graph.
As others have mentioned, many projects have been delayed and some aren't starting until 2014, so the curve is much flatter. In the next few years expect several more projects and extensions to be announced in Gladstone. Just think back 5 years and how much things have changed in that timeframe. Most of the workers on that graph wouldn't have been considered.
Also there is alot of temporary accommodation for the construction workforce. When the major LNG projects do finish all of their construction in a decade or so, the accommodation is removed (as required in the EIS), so there won't be a glut.