Leading energy heavyweight Trevor St Bakers has revealed this week a $6 billion plan to develop Australia’s first high efficiency, low emissions coal plant.

St Baker makes the valid point that all of Australia knows we’ve got a shortage of reliable, dispatchable power with at least 1000 MW gap in Victoria… & New South Wales has a booming population but no spare energy capacity.

MP Craig Kelly, the Liberal Member for Hughes, joins Michael to throw his support behind the plan which would be the cheapest way to supply the essential firm generation needed for reliable power.

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