We are advised that there will be less particulate fallout. We are not being advised there will not be any, and I thank them for their frankness in that regard. They are saying that it will be negligible and we are told that there will also be nitrous oxide emitted, which is said to be a very dangerous situation. I am not sure that there is a safe level of that at all. I do not know but I do not think there is.

Mr Parkinson - It comes out the back of your motor car and everybody else's.

Mr DEAN - Well, it is not safe, is it? But we are told that Tasmania does not have any current limits or benchmarks in relation to that. The benchmark is set in New South Wales, I think we were told this morning.

Mr Parkinson - The level is what is relevant; not the fact but the level.

Mr DEAN - Twenty-five parts per million is world's best practice, which is the standard that New South Wales sets, as I understand it.

Mr Parkinson - You should see what comes out the back of a diesel motor vehicle.

Mr DEAN - It is interesting that it is indicated that this power plant will in fact emit about 25 parts per 1 million.

Launceston/George Town have done so much to clean up that area in the past years. As I indicated here very recently, in 1997 there were 50 exceedences of the Environmental Protection Act in that area. It has now been diminished to six in 2006. We cannot allow anything to go backwards in this regard and this sale, the development of this new plant, should assist further with protection of that area, that valley. That is sufficient for me to be able to support it. As I said, I am fairly satisfied with the financial side of it and that it will give a reasonable return to the Hydro. We know very clearly that the Hydro have to look at new directions and I think this season has made it very clear that volumes of water may not be there in the future for the use of Hydro and other organisations. It is interesting that this plant will take, I think they said, 5 megalitres a day, which is quite a large amount of water, the equivalent about five Olympic swimming pools.

Mr Parkinson - Six lanes or eight lanes?

Mr DEAN - But I am told that Currie's dam will be able to provide that. It is interesting because that is quite a large amount of water and I was surprised that that volume of water would be necessary. There will be some effluent from that which will be discharged back into the Tamar River but I am told that that is not going to cause any pollution because it is only what is in the water that is going back into the water, but in a more concentrated form, as I understand it. I will be supporting it because of the environmental issues and the financial side of it. I think that it is a good position for Tasmania to move forward with.