[Greens-Media] Media Release: State Government Billion Dollar Saving Goes Missing

[Chapple, Robin]

Robin Chapple MLC
Member for the Mining and Pastoral Region




MEDIA RELEASE


State Government Billion Dollar Saving Goes Missing

2 July 2013

Greens WA spokesperson on Energy policy, Robin Chapple MLC, wonders where the $1 billion saved from the Energy portfolio has gone?

"In his first public announcement as Energy Minister, Mr Nahan boasted that the state government had made savings of $1 billion in the Energy portfolio.

http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/pages/StatementDetails.aspx?listName=StatementsBarnett&StatId=7285

"A series of questions from me in Parliament has finally forced an admission that the government can give no justification to back this claim - which leads me to conclude that the trumpeted saving is an illusion.

http://www.robinchapple.com/sites/default/files/2013-06-25%20QWON%20Claimed%20billion%20dollar%20govt%20energy%20savings.pdf

"The million or so metered premises on the Western Power network who get their next power bill shortly - containing this week's hike in state government utility charges - might think that their $1,000 share of the lost $1 billion would be quite handy.

"On top of the ever-increasing tally of wasted taxpayer millions in the Muja debacle, and the revelation of massive gas price increases around the corner - this has been a sorry period for WA energy policy", Mr Chapple concluded.



For more information please contact Robin Chapple on 0409 379 263 or 9486 8255





All the best

Robin Chapple MLC
Member for the Mining and Pastoral Region
PO Box 94, West Perth WA 6872
41 Havelock Street, West Perth. WA 6005

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