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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Altus Renewables</name>
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          <heading>Altus Renewables</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Mr BELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Mount Gambier</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-05-04">
            <name>Altus Renewables</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4844">Mr BELL (Mount Gambier)</by> (16 March 2021).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5384" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.J.R. PATTERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Trade and Investment</name>
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          <question date="2021-05-04">
            <name>Altus Renewables</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5384">The Hon. S.J.R. PATTERSON (Morphett—Minister for Trade and Investment):</by>  I have been advised the following:</inserted>
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          <inserted>Representatives from the Department for Trade and Investment have been actively working with Altus Renewables for many months as it has moved to implement its proposed pellet plant investment in South Australia.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Department for Trade and Investment has facilitated introductions to relevant local and state government agencies and is coordinating discussions of the company's proposal to assist progression of its project plans. This has provided Altus Renewables the opportunity for effective government engagement to identify and discuss site, access or development application considerations prior to formal lodgement of its development application.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The proposed Altus pellet plant project is an exciting investment for the state and my department will continue to work with Altus Renewables to realise an outcome for South Australia.</inserted>
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