Greg Hunt offers Alcoa new power station in bid to save Portland smelter
by Australian Associated Press from on (#25NMT)
A station in Victoria's south-west would reduce the smelter's vulnerability to outages and could access Clean Energy Finance Corporation funds, Hunt says
A new power station for Victoria's south-west are among offers being made to Alcoa in a bid to save jobs at the struggling Portland aluminium smelter.
Federal and Victorian industry ministers Greg Hunt and Wade Noonan will fly to New York on Monday to meet with senior global leaders of Alcoa in a bid to secure a future for the struggling smelter.
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