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Bette health for Port Augusta with solar thermal power plant

Port Augusta solar thermal power promises better health SA Conservation Council says  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-08/green-group-makes-fresh-calls-for-port-augusta/6377670 South Australia’s peak environment group says the need for solar thermal power in Port Augusta is an urgent health issue, as well as having climate change implications.

A study by Alinta Energy has found solar thermal technology is currently economically unviable.

Conservation Council of South Australia chief executive Craig Wilkins said a solar thermal plant at Port Augusta would not only help with jobs but improve local health.

Mr Wilkins said Port Augusta residents had suffered the health impacts of coal for decades.

He is calling for greater government support.

“We’ve got a dirty industrial plant which could be transferred to a cleaner technology which would help with jobs and the community’s health and that is a shift to the solar thermal as quickly as possible,” he said

April 9, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | solar, South Australia