State and Federal Governments must intervene to save Australia\u2019s first baseload solar thermal power plant, following the collapse of Solar Reserve\u2019s plans, the Greens say.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve written to Prime Minister Scott Morrison and SA Premier Steven Marshall today to urgently ensure this project is saved, fixed, and funded. So South Australia gets the jobs, investment and permanent lower power bills,\u201d Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young said.
\n\u201cSouth Australians would be proud to be the owners of the country\u2019s first baseload solar thermal plant. The Greens are calling for this project to go ahead with state and federal funding.
\n\u201cOnce again the Liberals have dropped the ball on a critical renewable energy project. The State and Federal Governments need to immediately intervene and save this project.
\n\u201cA publicly-owned solar thermal plant would be a boon for jobs at a time when they are desperately needed in our state. It would also provide investment in R&D catapulting South Australia as an innovation state.
\n\u201cThis is exactly the type of project The Greens\u2019\u00a0Renew Australia 2030<\/i>\u00a0is designed to support. We know when energy generation is publicly owned, it drives down electricity prices.
\n\u201cThe Port Augusta community fought so hard for this project, but this doesn\u2019t have to be the end of the road. This is an opportunity for our state to take ownership of our own renewable energy future.
\n\u201cBarnaby Joyce is calling for a publicly-funded coal-fired power station that would lock us in as a major polluter on the world stage and cement dangerous climate change. The Greens\u2019 alternative is a jobs-rich, nation-building solar thermal power station that will launch South Australia into a clean, renewable future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
State and Federal Governments must intervene to save Australia\u2019s first baseload solar thermal power plant, following the collapse of Solar Reserve\u2019s plans, the Greens say. \u201cI\u2019ve written to Prime Minister Scott Morrison and SA Premier Steven Marshall today to urgently ensure this project is saved, fixed, and funded. So South Australia gets the jobs, investment … Continue reading “Solar thermal plant should be publicly-owned: Greens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}