Mr COMBET (Charlton—Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency) (14:22): I thank the member for New England for his question. I am aware of MBD Energy and James Cook University's cooperation on this issue. In fact, the government recently announced, through my colleague the Minister for Resources and Energy, a $5 million grant to assist this particular project. The grant is a tremendous example actually— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member for Goldstein is warned. Mr COMBET: of the type of innovative project that can make a difference and help us establish a clean energy future for this country. MBD Energy is in fact at the forefront of the biofuels industry. It has projects across a wide range of clean tech industries. This particular grant I mentioned is for the macro-algae fuel program, which is developing methods for abating greenhouse gas emissions from facilities such as coal-fired electricity stations and using those gases as inputs in the algae growth and, ultimately, into biomass feedstock, which, as the member for New England indicated, has a number of potential applications, particularly in important growth markets in the Asia-Pacific region. This is a matter that many electricity generators—including one in my own electorate—have been examining, but it is something that becomes feasible as we put a price on greenhouse gas emissions in our economy. It is in fact but one example of the many changes that a carbon price is already driving in our economy. For example, grants have started to be made under the Clean Technology Program, which is a one billion-dollar program funded from carbon price revenue and directed towards assistance to the manufacturing sector to improve its energy efficiency and its emissions intensity. For example, one facility that I visited at Emu Plains called Crafty Chef has come up with changes that will reduce by 54 per cent the amount of electricity they use to produce a frozen meal for distribution through Woolworths outlets. That has cut their energy consumption per unit of output by 54 per cent— Opposition members interjecting — Mr COMBET: It is a big joke, according to the Leader of the Opposition, but it is actually pretty important. It means they can freeze a meal within one and a half hours, not ten hours, they will increase their turnover from $20 million to $50 million, and they will employ more people—that is, it will create jobs through clean technology. I also visited Richgro Garden Products at Jandakot in Western Australia, who are installing a waste-to-energy plant that uses organic waste to generate electricity, and there are numerous other examples that can be pointed to of constructive changes in the economy, and particularly in manufacturing and food processing, that are happening right now. That will continue under a carbon price. And that is why at the end of the day the coalition will not and cannot repeal this legislation. (Time expired)