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Labor accuses Minister of ‘prejudice against renewables’ in vetoing wind farm loan – Sydney Morning Herald
Northern Australia Minister Keith Pitt rejected the loan, claiming the wind farm would not provide firm power to the grid, but Labor says he is prejudiced against…
Are we seriously saying a Minister can knock off a loan that will support a project, even when there is funding available for another part of it that makes it all hang together? Because that is what has happened here, Senator Watt said. Surely someone went back to him and said youve got this wrong, this project includes a battery.
He knocked it off because of his own prejudice against renewable energy.
Under the NAIF Act, the agency must give the responsible minister written notice of the proposal,…
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