Tag: Electricity Energy and Utilities
NSW retail energy workers strike over new plan
The New South Wales Government's new plans for the electricity industry have sparked a state-wide strike by white collar energy workers.[MORE]
Stoner ejected during Parliament power debate
New South Wales Nationals Leader Andrew Stoner has been thrown out of Parliament after a rowdy question time on the Government's new plans for the electricity sector.[MORE]
AGL sells wind farm
Energy company AGL has sold its wind farm near Burra in the mid-north of South Australia in a deal it says is worth $59 million.[MORE]
Unions claim partial power victory
The head of Unions NSW is now claiming a partial victory in the fight over electricity privatisation.[MORE]
MP airs power debate anger
The Member for Tamworth, Peter Draper, has criticised both major parties after the New South Wales Government's failed power privatisation legislation debate yesterday.[MORE]
Power debate polarises NSW
There have been passionate reactions on both sides of the electricity privatisation debate.[MORE]
Power play: Iemma's move 'smacks of desperation'
Morris Iemma has denied he is being sneaky in pushing ahead with an alternative electricity privatisation.[MORE]
Iemma to push through new power plan
New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma has announced he is intending to push on with a form of electricity privatisation after a tumultuous day in State Parliament.[MORE]
NSW Govt kills off power debate
The NSW Government has killed debate on its electricity privatisation legislation after less than an hour.[MORE]
$5m boost for Narrandera power
The New South Wales Government says the Narrandera region's power supply is more secure after a $5 million upgrade.[MORE]
Takeover target Origin Energy posts $517m profit
Power retailer Origin Energy says higher earnings from its energy retailing and oil and gas units has pushed up profit for the 2008 financial year.[MORE]
Costa threatens to quit as privatisation push fails
NSW Treasurer Michael Costa says he is thinking about quitting politics if his electricity privatisation plan is defeated.[MORE]
Torbay predicts power privatisation set to fail
The Member for the Northern Tablelands says it is likely the New South Wales Government's power privatisation plan will be defeated in the Upper House today.[MORE]
Nationals promise to scrap headworks scheme
The Nationals say they will scrap Labor's distribution headworks scheme if they win the balance of power in the Parliament.[MORE]
Moves on to block power privatisation bill
Legislation to privatise the New South Wales electricity sector will be introduced today in the Upper House, where it is likely to be defeated.[MORE]
NSW Coalition set to scuttle power plan
The NSW Government's plan to privatise the state's electricity sector looks set to be scuttled when MPs vote today.[MORE]
Residents urged to air power privatisation opposition
A Country Energy employee and delegate for the United Services Union, Kevin Woodman, is calling on far west New South Wales residents to contact their local members of Parliament in the next two days, if they want to voice their opposition to the privatisation of the retail sector of the electricity industry.[MORE]
NSW power vote still uncertain
The future of the New South Wales electricity sector remains in limbo.[MORE]
Liberal candidate backs power station plan
The Liberal candidate for Blackwood Stirling, Wade de Campo, says he supports the development of a 40 megawatt biomass power station near Manjimup.[MORE]
Power generators fear carbon permit cost
Latrobe Valley power generators are concerned they will be unable to pay the prices being suggested for carbon permits under the Federal Government's proposed carbon trading scheme.[MORE]
'Bring it on': Iemma ready for power vote
The Premier says if his electricity privatisation bill is defeated that will be the end of his current sell-off plans. [MORE]
Opposition parties decide power privatisation stance
The National party will meet today to discuss its final attitude to the planned privatisation of the New South Wales power industry.[MORE]
MPs hope Hunter shares in power sale funds
A Lake Macquarie MP says he is hoping the Hunter region is not financially disadvantaged as a result of several local Labor MPs opposing the Government's power privatisation plans.[MORE]
Opposition MPs set to debate power privatisation
It is crunch time for southern New South Wales Opposition MPs who are being recalled to State Parliament to debate electricity privatisation.[MORE]
Green group rejects power plant proposal
Conservationists have rejected the idea of a wood-fired electricity generation plant being built on the New South Wales far south coast.[MORE]
