Helium drilling set to start after WA taxpayers shielded from cleanup costs
UK-listed Georgina Energy plans to drill in the remote Little Great Sandy Desert in search of helium, hydrogen and natural gas.
In WA, the east coast power utility AGL retails gas and owns the gas-fired Kwinana Swift power station.
The 250 MW station is set to open in 2029, when coal-fired generation ends in South West WA, but new gas turbines are increasingly hard to get.
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