Creevey Horrell Lawyers is eyeing expansion into regional Qld with offices in Roma and Chinchilla
Big city law firms are abandoning country Queensland, according to a legal firm principal as his business aims to rollout three new regional offices.
Law firm Creevey Horrell Lawyers is eyeing further expansion into regional Queensland which principal Dan Creevey claims is being ignored by the big city top and mid-tier law firms.
Creevey used the launch of the firm’s newly refurbished Toowoomba head office to announce the expansion plans, warning failure to grow in regional Queensland would mean “we will die on the vine”.
Creevey says the firm, which also has offices in Brisbane and Townsville, has acquired another criminal law practice and was planning to open new offices in Roma, Chinchilla and a second office in Townsville, where the firm is represented by Special Counsel Lucas Hickey.
“We believe that the regions really offer us an opportunity as a law firm,” he says.
“It is an opportunity a lot of the big city firms and mid-tier firms aren’t accessing.”
Hickey returned to his home city of Townsville when Creevey Horrell Lawyers expanded there in 2022.
Creevey says that in Townsville, they have grown from one lawyer to three and they want to open a new office in the northern Queensland city in the New Year.
“There’s a complete dearth of good lawyers in that area so we’re doubling down on the opportunities in North Queensland,” he says.
Creevey Horrell’s launch of its renovated premises in Toowoomba featured the raffle of a 10.85cts green and dark blue Queensland Boulder opal from Winton, which helped raise more than $6000 for The Common Ground Foundation, a charity offering emergency accommodation in Toowoomba for rural families during medical crises.
Powering up
Energy infrastructure giant APA Group has linked up with the state-government owned CS Energy to build a billion-dollar plus gas power plant in Western Downs.
APA has announced the execution of a Joint Development Agreement for the delivery of the proposed 400MW Brigalow Peaking Power Plant, next to CS Energy’s existing Kogan Creek Power Station.
APA will own 80 per cent of the 400-megawatt Brigalow Peaking Power Plant, which will be the state’s first new gas power generation in more than a decade when it comes online in 2028, subject to meeting conditions.
The project expands APA’s footprint in gas-powered generation. It will connect to APA’s Roma Brisbane Pipeline via a new lateral transport and storage pipeline, which is being developed separately.
APA CEO Adam Watson says the project builds on the gas pipeline giants’s existing capabilities and assets in Queensland, driving momentum in its GPG growth strategy and complementing its separate agreement with CS Energy to deliver the project’s lateral pipeline.
“We know significant investment in GPG capacity is needed to firm the integration of renewables in Australia’s energy system,” he says.
“The project will create value for communities across Queensland, energy consumers and APA security holders.”
At least $800m of the cost of the project will fall to APA, on top of $150m it is already due to spend on a gas pipeline connection for the plant, under a deal announced in July.
The project is part of the Crisafulli government’s new state energy road map, released in October, which envisages as much as 8.3 gigawatts of new gas power capacity by 2035 to complement the rising share of intermittent renewable energy in Queensland’s power grid.
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