{"id":521,"date":"2011-08-19T07:14:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2011\/08\/19\/families-lost-in-rush-to-shut-down-power-stations\/"},"modified":"2011-08-19T07:14:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:14:44","slug":"families-lost-in-rush-to-shut-down-power-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/families-lost-in-rush-to-shut-down-power-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMILIES LOST IN RUSH TO SHUT DOWN POWER STATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>August 19, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Latrobe Valley families will be concerned by reports indicating the Gillard Government is aiming to have contracts to shut down at least two power stations by June 30 next year according to The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Gillard Government sources have told media outlets that expressions of interest for the tender process will be open from next month.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the four generators identified in the reports as qualifying for the closure program are based in the Latrobe Valley &#8211; Hazelwood, Yallourn and Energy Brix.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said the reports prove that the Gillard Government is not heeding the message that is coming from the Latrobe Valley community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople in the Latrobe Valley do not want this government\u2019s household assistance package, they want the decency of a job,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has failed to produce anything that details the full impact of its carbon tax on the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLatrobe Valley families deserve answers from this government about what the future of the region will be under a carbon tax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester yesterday called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to give assurances of future employment for Latrobe Valley power workers during Question Time in Federal Parliament yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many workers in the Latrobe Valley will lose their livelihoods because of the carbon tax that she promised would never be introduced?\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister could not provide a figure in response to Mr Chester\u2019s question.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow Environment Minister Greg Hunt said the government is ploughing ahead with shutting down power stations without regard for energy security, jobs or electricity prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was only a month ago that the Prime Minister visited the Latrobe Valley and looked the workers in the eye and assured them of their future,\u201d Mr Hunt said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow she is aiming to have the power station closures locked in by June next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the Gillard Government wants to close them down, the Coalition is committed to cleaning up the power stations if it is the lowest cost abatement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>August 19, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Latrobe Valley families will be concerned by reports indicating the Gillard Government is aiming to have contracts to shut down at least two power stations by June 30 next year according to The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Gillard Government sources have told media outlets that expressions of interest for the tender process will be open from next month.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the four generators identified in the reports as qualifying for the closure program are based in the Latrobe Valley &#8211; Hazelwood, Yallourn and Energy Brix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}