Works for me, especially seeing as how Prof Garnaut wants to tighten the screws on on dirty damp La Trobe brown coal which is near the mainland connector for Basslink.

However Whyalla is the spot nearest to the expanding Olympic Dam
http://odx.bhpbilliton.com/expansion/index.asp
that has good sea currents. They also could turn off the pipeline from the Murray ..I've used the image before but Gav told me off for hogging bandwidth. That saves river water for Adelaide. That region will end up supplying 40% of the world's primary uranium, so I think they should have first dibs if charity begins at home. The people around there are battle hardened, think Baxter and Woomera riots.