How are you managing that risk as it stands at the moment in terms of decisions around investing upfront in some of that, so-called enabling infrastructure, versus the negotiations
In June 2023, the Tasmanian government committed to buying energy from an offshore wind farm.
Paladin is the proponent of a contentious coal mine on the east coast, lease number 4M/2012, and wants to use that coal to create hydrogen.
I'm interested in new technologies and the state of play regarding hydrogen powering of vessels.
Is it the Government's intention to build it first and then recover the capital costs through the water entitlements?
I start by thanking officials for the briefing yesterday. I note this bill was tabled in the House on 18 October 2023.
Minister, have you, or your staff, or officials from your department, met with representatives of the companies Hydrogen Ready Carbon Mining Pty Ltd or Paladin?
Have you or your staff or any other government officials had any other meetings with Paladin Hydrogen?
What other work has TasPorts done - and this might be one for the minister, but it is also operational - to support the renewable energy hub?
The proposal to construct an underground coal mine in Fingal would dig up 1 million tonnes of coal a year to be transported to Bell Bay and create hydrogen.