Courier Mail
Monday 30/6/2008 Page: 13
THE Western Australian mining town of Kalgoorlie will house the nation's first solar power station connected to a main grid. Premier Alan Carpenter has used the backdrop of the energy supply crisis to announce new projects in renewable energy and public transport. The $13 million station will supply 1.77 megawatts of electricity to about 500 homes in the goldfields town. The state will also fund research into a harvesting machine for oil mallee trees, a potential bioenergy source. Mr Carpenter also restated Labor's commitment not to mine WA uranium after the Australian Workers Union and former NSW premier Bob Carr said it was time for the ALP to drop its long-standing opposition to nuclear energy.
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