Points that could be added to your email to your local members of Parliament
# This is your Electricity Supply Authority and is not for sale.
# The Premier and the Treasurer are going against the constitution of the very party that got them elected. Morris Iemma and Micheal Costa are going to go down in history as dictators. This is supposed to be a democracy.
# The Labor MPs were elected to office because their Labor Party said it would not sell electricity assets. Did the entire government get elected by lying to the electorate.
# 85% of the public are opposed to the sale. Supporting the sale will be political suicide. Opposition Energy spokesman Peter Debnam resigned his position rather than support it.!
# The ALP pledge (the Labor Party) states that you will follow party lines or face expulsion. It does not state that you follow a leader and treasurer while he breaks the rules and destroys the party in the process.
# This is a democracy and you don't have to be Einstein to see that a vote of 702 to 107 is a resounding NO to privatization. Voting with the Premier and treasurer on this will almost certainly lose you preselection at the next election. You will be going against the very branches that got you there.
# Adding a third party to the electricity industry is seen by the public as only adding to the cost of the final price of the electricity. It will not reduce it.
# Ask why the private owners would build new power stations if the more scarce the commodity gets the higher the price they will get for what they are already generating!
# The people of NSW deserve to have a say in the running of their electricity supply authority. Control of this service should not put in the hands of multinationals that will only run it for profit, putting environmental concerns behind profits.
# If it is so unattractive for our government to own and opperate why are other governments knocking down the doors to get a piece of it.
# The people of NSW should not be treated as the life support for a foreign government or multinational corporation.
# Prices will rise with a carbon tax. This will be the perfect smoke screen for private eneterprise to hide price rises behind.
# If it is unattractive for reasons of price (they say electricity is too cheap right now) to stop further investment in generation then who do they think will ulimately pay for this. For third parties to build new generation the price must skyrocket and the consumer will have to foot the bill.
# Energy efficiency should be looked at first. Gas for electricity should be used for hot water, not inefficiently turning it into electricity and then back to heat for hot water. Apparently there is more money in electricity generation than providing efficient hot water.
# Munmorah Power Station has been labled a dirty old inefficient dinosaur. The committies that have said it should be shut down are shortsighted. Munmorah is the plant that is used as test beds for such things as carbon capture. It has coal plasma ignition systems, doing away with fuel oil. Munmorah may very well provide the answers to save our other coal fired power stations. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
# Average annual electricity prices in Australia are Adelaide=$1016 Perth=$808 Darwin=$800 Brisbane=$792 Canberra=$772 Hobart=$744 and
# We already have no control over the price of petrol. Now the state government wants to hand over control of our electricity to somebody else. The price of electricity on the spot market can vary from $0 to $20000 a Megawatt hour. The control of this is purely up to the market. The government already owns it and they say they will be able to regulate it when they hand the process over to someone else. I don't think so. That sort of guarantee doesn't have any credibility.
# 99 year leases mean a sale. A 99 year lease on the
# There is something morally wrong with having an asset you, the public, already own sold against your will to provide profits for some foreign government or corporation. We voted for you. We deserve to the platform you were elected on.
# Stop avoiding the obviously massive opposition to the sale and treat the electorate as the electorate who voted for you and not as collateral damage in the process.
