Close Hazelwood: Labor MP

A LABOR MP has backed calls for the federal government to intervene to help close and replace Australia's ''dirtiest'' power station, the Hazelwood coal-fired plant in the Latrobe Valley.

Kelvin Thomson, the member for Wills in Melbourne's northern suburbs, praised a report that suggests the Hazelwood plant could be replaced by 2012 at a cost of about $320 million a year.

In a speech to Parliament, Mr Thomson said there was a case for the Commonwealth and Victorian governments to help negotiate an early close with the plant's owners, International Power.
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