Tag: HELE

A federal Labor bid to block government funding for a business case for Shine Energy's proposed Collinsville coal-fired power plant has failed.

Labor energy spokesman Mark Butler moved that the funding process be disallowed, describing it as a rorted process to hand over taxpayer money to back a project that was entirely without merit and that no bank would touch with a barge pole.

The unsuccessful disallowance motion to strip more than $3 million in funding promised by the Coalition government for the study came less than two months after a similar vote was shut down in the. . .

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A motion in the Senate to block funding for the feasibility study for a 1GW High Efficiency, Low Emission (HELE) coal-fired power station in Collinsville has failed.

Federal Member for Capricornia Michelle Landry said the Labor and Greens alliance in the Senate had failed to win enough support for a disallowance motion for the legislative instrument to provide $3.3 million in funding to complete a feasibility study.

She described the failure of the disallowance motion was a win for regional Queensland.

“The Labor and Greens alliance in the Senate voted against lower power costs in North Queensland, against. . .

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