Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Minchin. Given the Prime Minister’s statements that solar thermal technology cannot provide baseload power and, on the other hand, that the pre- and post-combustion carbon capture and storage of carbon dioxide from coal-fired power stations will provide baseload power and save jobs in the power stations in the Hunter Valley within 15 years, will the minister confirm that the Prime Minister or the government has research to underpin these statements? Will he make public the figures, plans or modelling that underpin where and how it is envisaged that pre and post carbon capture and storage will be implemented within 15 years in the Hunter Valley when no suitable geological storage structures exist?