❓ Question regarding an $88 million grant to Alinta for the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline expansion. Premier defends the investment as beneficial to the state's infrastructure and job creation.
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I have a supplementary question. Does the Premier concede that this $88 million grant has given a considerable benefit to a private enterprise, namely Alinta? Dr G.I. GALLOP
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The government of Western Australia invests in infrastructure all over the state and this investment creates opportunities for people to come into Western Australia and invest money and create jobs. The real beneficiaries of the expansion of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline will be the people of Western Australia. The attitude of the Leader of the Opposition on this issue is very interesting. We have invested $150 million in infrastructure on the Burrup Peninsula, as a result of which we have the first investment in the further value adding of our resources in this state in the Burrup Peninsula under the tutelage of this government, and I am talking about the ammonia plant currently being constructed there. Members might say that the investment in that area obviously helped the companies that will invest in that area, just as they might say that the investment in the expansion of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline will assist the further development of the gas-related industries in this state. Of course it will, and that is why we are doing it.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: The government of Western Australia invests in infrastructure all over the state and this investment creates opportunities for people to come into Western Australia and invest money and create jobs. The real beneficiaries of the expansion of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline will be the people of Western Australia. The attitude of the Leader of the Opposition on this issue is very interesting. We have invested $150 million in infrastructure on the Burrup Peninsula, as a result of which we have the first investment in the further value adding of our resources in this state in the Burrup Peninsula under the tutelage of this government, and I am talking about the ammonia plant currently being constructed there. Members might say that the investment in that area obviously helped the companies that will invest in that area, just as they might say that the investment in the expansion of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline will assist the further development of the gas-related industries in this state. Of course it will, and that is why we are doing it.
The government of Western Australia invests in infrastructure all over the state and this investment creates opportunities for people to come into Western Australia and invest money and create jobs. The real beneficiaries of the expansion of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline will be the people of Western Australia. The attitude of the Leader of the Opposition on this issue is very interesting. We have invested $150 million in infrastructure on the Burrup Peninsula, as a result of which we have the first investment in the further value adding of our resources in this state in the Burrup Peninsula under the tutelage of this government, and I am talking about the ammonia plant currently being constructed there. Members might say that the investment in that area obviously helped the companies that will invest in that area, just as they might say that the investment in the expansion of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline will assist the further development of the gas-related industries in this state. Of course it will, and that is why we are doing it.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: The government of Western Australia invests in infrastructure all over the state and this investment creates opportunities for people to come into Western Australia and invest money and create jobs. The real beneficiaries of the expansion of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline will be the people of Western Australia. The attitude of the Leader of the Opposition on this issue is very interesting. We have invested $150 million in infrastructure on the Burrup Peninsula, as a result of which we have the first investment in the further value adding of our resources in this state in the Burrup Peninsula under the tutelage of this government, and I am talking about the ammonia plant currently being constructed there. Members might say that the investment in that area obviously helped the companies that will invest in that area, just as they might say that the investment in the expansion of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline will assist the further development of the gas-related industries in this state. Of course it will, and that is why we are doing it.
The government of Western Australia invests in infrastructure all over the state and this investment creates opportunities for people to come into Western Australia and invest money and create jobs. The real beneficiaries of the expansion of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline will be the people of Western Australia. The attitude of the Leader of the Opposition on this issue is very interesting. We have invested $150 million in infrastructure on the Burrup Peninsula, as a result of which we have the first investment in the further value adding of our resources in this state in the Burrup Peninsula under the tutelage of this government, and I am talking about the ammonia plant currently being constructed there. Members might say that the investment in that area obviously helped the companies that will invest in that area, just as they might say that the investment in the expansion of the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline will assist the further development of the gas-related industries in this state. Of course it will, and that is why we are doing it.
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