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Legislative Council INTERVIEW 639ABC: Greens call for a new steel industry in the Eyre Peninsula / Wind Power July 21st, 2010 6:45am: (Jackson: The State’s Greens Party wants to see some of Eyre Peninsula’s iron ore processed locally to create a new steel industry. The Greens Leader, Mark Parnell, says wind power could help drive the new industry. He told Tim Jeans the days of massive exports are numbered and government should be value adding its resources.)
I think we need to be looking beyond Australia being the world’s quarry. There is a problem with simply digging up our minerals and exporting them overseas. If we can make Eyre Peninsula the renewable energy capital of South Australia then we’ve got the energy that could be used for more processing here in our State rather than simply exporting the materials to China and elsewhere.
(Jeans: You really think with that sort of energy we could bring it back onshore? … )
The reason that we’re exporting minerals and not processing them here is largely driven by the economies; the fact that Chinese wage rates are so much lower than here. But what will change in the future is a price on carbon and recognising that heavy industry has to be greener in the way it operates … that’s a big advantage that South Australia will have in the future, especially if some of these mooted wind farms on Eyre Peninsula come to fruition. You could have a mineral processing industry that is powered by renewable energy and that would give us a huge advantage over other parts of the world which will continue to use dirty technologies like burning coal.
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