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Reforms to the National Electricity Market are being encouraged by the Queensland Government to future proof the state’s energy supply and crucially, its significant CQ-based workforce.
The calls from the Palaszczuk Government come after the Energy Security Board chair, Dr Kerry Schott, said the influx of renewable energy and the retirement of coal fired power generation must be factored into a redesigned market.
Coal fired power stations at Gladstone, Biloela and Stanwell employ thousands and provide a positive contribution to the region’s economy, but Dr Schott warned it was impossible to overstate the rapid developments in the sector.
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Subscriber only QUEENSLAND S Attorney-General has sought urgent appeal advice after a man accused of bashing a sex worker and violently raping an elderly woman in a Townsville park was granted bail and freed from custody. A 66-year-old woman who was walking along a path near Victor St was left bloody and bruised on a riverbank in Cranbrook after she was allegedly dragged into the bushes and raped on September 30 last year. TheTownsville Bulletinasked Attorney-General and Minister for Women Shannon Fentiman if she planned step in an exercise her power to appeal the grant of bail which was not in line with community expectations. .