A nuclear -led economic recovery for South Australia starting 15 years away – no way! says Liberal leader
Daniel Wills: Final decision on nuclear waste repository in South Australia could be years away, Daniel Wills, The Advertiser, September 16, 2016 “……..there is an emerging degree of scepticism on the conservative side of state politics.
Opposition Leader Steven Marshall said he feared the state risked being distracted by a far-off vision of economic utopia instead of focusing on immediate reforms to its economy.
The Liberals have also raised concerns about the cost to taxpayers of investigating nuclear storage without any certainty that international customers would want to use it.
Mr Marshall said the Opposition was open to developing the industry in SA but the Government had shown a lack of focus in examining critical and urgent aspects of the proposal.
“There is just no way that SA can wait 15 years to have a nuclear-led recovery,” he said………..http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/daniel-wills-final-decision-on-nuclear-waste-repository-in-south-australia-could-be-years-away/news-story/5f76e4057d80304c52cccf25d2f2a440
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The first steps to privatising the electricity industry in South Australia were taken when the Federal Government moved to break up the publicaly owned electricity industry. It did this using financial penalties to those states that did not cooperate.
Corporatisation was clearly intended as a lever to privatisation, making it easy to sell off bits and pieces of the industry, as eventually happened in SA. Corporatisation of ETSA was followed by privatisation and the re-merging of electricity producers and retailers with no hint that this was anti-competitive.
The SA Liberal Party went to the state elections with a promise not to privatise electricity. No sooner had it gained office than it reversed this promise, using the State Bank fiasco as its excuse. That this was a strategy planned before the election can be gauged from the Federal Government’s corporatisation agenda.
A publicaly owned Pelican Point power station would have avoided recent problems. Instead, scarce resources are being committed to turn SA into an international nuclear waste dump.
With such fiascos, how could we forget?
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