Energy Giant Not Receiving $450 Million in Compensation for Price Controls: Australian PM

Energy Giant Not Receiving $450 Million in Compensation for Price Controls: Australian PM
An employee of Australian mining giant Rio Tinto walks past a sign at the Shanghai offices of the firm on February 11, 2010. Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
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Rio Tinto will get “nothing like” $450 million (US$303 million) in compensation to offset the impact of a coal price cap on its Gladstone Power Station in Queensland, the prime minister says.

The federal government is negotiating coal price caps of $125 a tonne with Queensland and New South Wales, in a bid to put drive down household and business electricity bills.

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