 In April 2008, Queensland Energy Resources started to sell the equipment of the plant.On 14 August 2008, Queensland Energy Resources announced that it would replace the Alberta Taciuk Process (ATP) of oil shale processing with Paraho II technology and that it was dismantling the ATP-based plant.The facility was dismantled in 2008–2009, and a new demonstration plant based on the Paraho process was opened in September 2011.