Huge NT solar farm backed by Mike Cannon-Brookes gets environmental approval
by Adam Morton and Lisa Cox from on (#6Q4AS)
Go-ahead given for first stage of $30bn SunCable project, which minister says will be transformational' for Northern Territory
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The Australian government has given the green light to the first stages of what it describes as the country's biggest renewable energy project ever" - an ambitious proposal to send energy from a solar farm in the Northern Territory outback to Singapore via subsea cables.
The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, said the approval under conservation law of SunCable's $30bn-plus Australia-Asia Power Link was a massive step towards making Australia a renewable energy superpower" and that the project would be economically and socially transformational" for the NT.
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