Wednesday 30 May 2007

Wind farm `looks a goer'

Hobart Mercury
Wednesday 30/5/2007 Page: 10

THE State Government believes the $230 million Musselroe Bay wind farm can be built if Tasmania becomes part of a New South Wales emissions trading scheme. Primary Industries and Water Minister David Llewellyn said NSW had announced the introduction of a scheme prior to its recent election.

"I have been to NSW to talk to the Premier [Morris Iemma] and also to the Minister for Energy and they are happy with Tasmania accessing the scheme." he said. "It is a national scheme they are going to put in place and new projects that start at the first of January this year will be eligible, and the scheme will come into place on January 1.2008." "We are working to try and get the Musselroe project up for later this year.

"The Australian Government's decision to can the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target Scheme set a terrible precedent for what we can expect from the report to be provided to the PM [John Howard] later this week," he said. "In that case the Prime Minister' own experts recommended the extension of the MRET scheme - but the Prime Minister ignored the evidence to protect the vested interests of heavy greenhouse polluters."

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