Minister says he’s not surprised that generators don’t want another big baseload power station to enter the market
Australia’s resources minister, Matt Canavan, has flagged subsidising a “clean” coal baseload power plant from the government’s $5bn northern Australia infrastructure fund, and says the government has already heard from an interested party.
Canavan on Friday suggested a potential investor in a new power station was eyeing off development in the Galilee Basin, the planned site of the Adani coal mine – and he said cheap power had been the key to opening up the Bowen basin in Queensland in the 1960s.
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It seems Turnbull has come around to One Nation’s position & now supports more baseload coal power & affordable energy- Good to see #auspol
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