{"id":57354,"date":"2021-12-28T05:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=57354"},"modified":"2021-12-28T05:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:51:52","slug":"clive-coal-call-in-mb2291","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/clive-coal-call-in-mb2291\/","title":{"rendered":"Clive&#8217;s Carbon-Spewing Coal Burner Project Called In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/clive-palmer-coal-power.jpg\" alt=\"Clive Palmer - Waratah Coal power station in Queensland\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/clive-palmer-coal-power.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/clive-palmer-coal-power-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/clive-palmer-coal-power-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/clive-palmer-coal-power-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks like Clive Palmer didn&#8217;t get the lump of coal in his stocking he may have been hoping for at Xmas. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, Mr. Palmer announced he intended to build a 700MW coal-fired power station in Queensland\u2019s Galilee Basin. Then in May this year, Mr. Palmer&#8217;s Waratah Coal formally announced the company&#8217;s intention to construct a 1,400MW coal power plant in the Barcaldine region, 30 kilometres from the tiny town of Alpha.<\/p>\n<p>Usually a project of this nature would involve a community consultation phase, but Waratah Coal attempted to avoid this by submitting its development application to Barcaldine Regional Council as a code-assessable development &#8211; and its planning scheme was adopted in 2006. Council appeared to be less than thrilled with being responsible for the decision.<\/p>\n<p>But last month, Queensland Deputy Premier and Planning Minister Steven Miles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/palmer-coal-power-mb2229\/\">proposed to &#8220;call in&#8221; the project<\/a> in order to ensure the community gets their say. Call-ins are used only in exceptional circumstances to protect economic and environmental state interests.<\/p>\n<p>The Planning Minister provided a heads-up so interested parties could submit feedback on whether or not the proposed development involves a state interest and whether or not he should exercise his powers to call in the application.<\/p>\n<h2>Threat To QLD Emissions And Renewables Targets<\/h2>\n<p>After reviewing hundreds of representations, Mr. Miles decided to go ahead last Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBarcaldine Regional Council has never assessed a project of this size. This call in allows the State to address a broader range of matters than the council was able to under their planning scheme,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/statements.qld.gov.au\/statements\/94178\">he stated<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of those issues include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The project&#8217;s impact on Queensland&#8217;s renewable energy target (QRET) of 50% by 2030, a 10-year Energy Plan currently under development and emissions targets.<\/li>\n<li>The impact on ground water, threatened species, air quality, and surrounding land uses &#8211; including agriculture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"hgKElc\">Queensland&#8217;s 2030 emissions target is set to at least 30% below 2005 levels by 2030<\/span>. An assessment prepared for Waratah Coal in 2019 indicated the power station would generate 9,427,000 tonnes CO2 equivalent annually. It&#8217;s not a trivial amount.<\/p>\n<p>While the proposed plant is a so-called \u201cHigh Efficiency, Low Emissions\u201d (HELE) ultra-supercritical power station, it would still spew 0.79-0.81 kgCO2-e\/kWh. The term HELE is an exaggeration at the best of times, but particularly so in relation to Waratah&#8217;s facility when considering a subcritical (conventional) black coal burner generates around 0.940 kg CO2-e\/ kWh.<\/p>\n<p>As for the QRET of 50% by 2030, that&#8217;s already looking a little shaky without the Waratah Coal Alpha Power Station thrown into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Queensland\u2019s renewable energy was around 19 per cent in 2020\u201321, thanks largely to rooftop solar. In November, Queensland&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3psXEN0\">Auditor General warned<\/a> that while there was a &#8220;long list of potential renewable projects&#8221;, many early-stage projects may not be operational by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>If Waratah&#8217;s plant comes into play, that would be another 1400MW of renewable capacity that needs to be operational by 2030 &#8211; again, not a trivial amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Clive Palmer didn&#8217;t get the lump of coal in his stocking he may have been hoping for at Xmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":57355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Clive&#039;s Carbon-Spewing Coal Burner Project Called In - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It looks like Clive Palmer didn&#039;t get the lump of coal in his stocking he may have been hoping for at Xmas.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/clive-coal-call-in-mb2291\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clive&#039;s Carbon-Spewing Coal Burner Project Called In\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It looks like Clive Palmer didn&#039;t get the lump of coal in his stocking he may have been hoping for at Xmas.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/clive-coal-call-in-mb2291\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-27T18:51:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/clive-palmer-coal-power.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/clive-coal-call-in-mb2291\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/clive-coal-call-in-mb2291\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Clive&#8217;s Carbon-Spewing Coal Burner Project Called In\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-27T18:51:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/clive-coal-call-in-mb2291\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":499,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/clive-coal-call-in-mb2291\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/clive-palmer-coal-power.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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