Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

The senator is exactly right: many countries, as I said in my answer to the previous question, are building these latest coal-fired power stations around the world. If we were to replace our own coal-fired fleet with this latest technology, it would reduce our emissions in our coal-fired sector by about 21 per cent to 27 per cent. India has also made the decision to make sure all of its new coal-fired power stations are supercritical or above. It is also retrofitting some of its older coal-fired power stations with supercritical technology.

Senator Whish-Wilson interjecting—

I will take that interjection—'Who is proposing the technology?' Dr Alan Finkel, the Chief Scientist, says that:

We believe that there are a lot of low-emissions technologies and combinations with storage that are the future …

Senator Whish-Wilson interjecting—