{"id":525,"date":"2011-10-24T05:54:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T05:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2011\/10\/24\/valley-to-pay-three-times-to-close-local-power-stations\/"},"modified":"2011-10-24T05:54:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T05:54:27","slug":"valley-to-pay-three-times-to-close-local-power-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/valley-to-pay-three-times-to-close-local-power-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"VALLEY TO PAY THREE TIMES TO CLOSE LOCAL POWER STATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>October 24, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Latrobe Valley residents will pay three times for the closure of power stations under the Gillard Labor Government\u2019s flawed scheme according to Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said he could understand why the owners of Yallourn, Hazelwood and Energy Brix had expressed interest in the \u2018contract for closure\u2019 scheme but warned the Federal Government had no plans to protect local jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder this scheme the Latrobe Valley will be the hardest hit,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will effectively pay three times as our taxes are used to pay power companies to close down, households will have higher electricity bills and local workers will lose their jobs at power stations and in supporting industries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government might be able to compensate power companies, but people in the Latrobe Valley community want the decency of a job and the prospect of a future in our region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any sense to spend billions of taxpayer dollars closing down power generating assets which are not at the end of their useful lives and forcing a switch to more expensive forms of electricity generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the direct job losses in our community there will be flow-on impacts with higher production costs for a range of industries as the Gillard Labor Government\u2019s carbon tax comes into force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State Member for Morwell Russell Northe has also expressed his concern about the Federal Government\u2019s failure to manage the consequences of its policy to shut down brown coal fired power stations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Federal Government doesn\u2019t have a plan for the Latrobe Valley economy if any of these power stations are closed down under the \u2018contract for closure\u2019 scheme,\u201d Mr Northe said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of talk but no action by the Federal Government to protect local jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>October 24, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Latrobe Valley residents will pay three times for the closure of power stations under the Gillard Labor Government\u2019s flawed scheme according to Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said he could understand why the owners of Yallourn, Hazelwood and Energy Brix had expressed interest in the \u2018contract for closure\u2019 scheme but warned the Federal Government had no plans to protect local jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder this scheme the Latrobe Valley will be the hardest hit,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/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\/525"}],"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=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}