Steven Marshall MP State Liberal Leader Ratepayers will be the latest group of South Australians to feel the sting of the Weatherill Government’s disastrous energy policies after the Local Government Association warned councils will pay 30-50 per cent more for electricity in 2017. Like any business of scale, local government isn’t immune to electricity price […]
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Electricity Policy | SPEECH
Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN ( Stuart ) ( 15:20 :49 ): Very unfortunately, we have just seen yet another victim of the state government’s failed energy policy. The Local Government Association of South Australia has announced that it expects its member councils to pay increases of between 30 and 50 per cent in their electricity prices […]
Fishing Regulations | SPEECH
Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN ( Stuart ) ( 15:34 :03 ): Let me support the member for Elder in saying no to domestic violence. Any effort whatsoever that can go towards doing that is incredibly important. The subject of my grievance speech today is the soon to be imposed new fishing regulations for coastal waters […]
Labor Government – no confidence motion | SPEECH
Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN ( Stuart ) ( 14:35 :35 ): I stand here to support the Leader of the Opposition and the motion, as all members on this side of the house do. It is very clear that by any standard this government has failed with regard to energy policy and the delivery of […]
Energy/Alinta | QUESTION TIME
Excerpt from Question Time transcript 29 March 2017 Mr MARSHALL ( Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:04:57): My question is to the Premier. Will the Premier tell the people of South Australia why, on 17 March this year, he claimed that Alinta had not made an offer to keep the Northern power station open given today’s revelation […]
Weatherill’s billion dollar bungle (Northern Power Station)
Steven Marshall MP State Liberal Leader Jay Weatherill’s refusal to provide just $24 million to keep the Northern Power Station open is the most economically damaging decision by a State Government since the collapse of the State Bank. “Jay Weatherill’s decision to force the Northern Power Station to close will cost South Australian households well […]
Energy generation/Alinta/Hazelwood | QUESTION TIME
Excerpt from Question Time transcript 28 March 2017 Mr MARSHALL ( Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:33:37): My question is to the Premier. Did the government undertake any modelling to determine whether 250 megawatts of reserve generation could be contracted from existing providers at a lower price and sooner than the government’s proposed $360 million gas generator? […]
Emergency Management (Electricity Supply Emergencies) Amendment Bill | SPEECH
Second Reading Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN ( Stuart ) ( 12:07 :00 ): Let me say first of all that the opposition will not oppose this bill going through this house, but we will consider it in great detail between the houses. It will not surprise anybody here to know that, essentially, we have no […]
Answer is blowing in the wind
Steven Marshall MP State Liberal Leader The Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) confirmation that the loss of power from wind farms was instrumental in South Australia’s state-wide blackout on the 28th of September last year has exposed Jay Weatherill’s claims it was wholly the result of the storm. “AEMO’s report makes clear that had nine […]
Future power just got more expensive
Steven Marshall MP State Liberal Leader The State Liberals have released Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) base future contracts data showing that Jay Weatherill’s patch-up job on South Australia’s fragile electricity network is pushing the price of electricity up even further. In the two weeks since Jay Weatherill released his $550 million taxpayer funded plan to […]