Question Time

Wind Power

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Treasurer, Minister for Finance, Minister for State Development, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy) (14:58): The other question is: what caused Pelican Point to be mothballed?

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: Another good question to put. The opposition hate renewal, they hate solar and now they hate gas.

The Hon. M.L.J. Hamilton-Smith: They don't like gas.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: They don't like gas. Isn't it amazing how a state that is gas rich the opposition oppose, and we don't have much coal, but they are all in favour of coal? It's an amazing position the Leader of the Opposition has taken them to—the conservative party to hate unconventional gas but love coal, which we don't have. That is a unique piece of positioning by a leader of the opposition. So, renewable energy out, solar energy out; any form of new technologies out; gas, which we have an abundance of, out. What we want is something we don't have, which is coal. If that's the opposition's energy policy, God help us all.