Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question without notice is to the honourable Minister for Resources and Energy. The minister would be aware of his own role as the Lone Ranger riding to the rescue of the $15 billion North West Queensland Mineral Province about to be scalped by electricity demand growth outstripping supply in 2012, the current cost of inefficient small power generation rendering our mineral production noncompetitive, no growth capacity in the north-west grid and CPR charges. In light of this, could the minister ensure—

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