The inference of CBA’s assessment is that the total value of the asset bought for $2.35 billion in 1996 is now worth $50 million, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.
Hazelwood power station
Protestors defy Vic govt laws that ‘stifle democracy’
Controversial Victorian climate change protest laws breach freedoms of political expression and are “stifling democracy”, a prominent barrister and Greens candidate has claimed. Greg Foyster reports from the weekend protests.
Cash for clunkers: $1b for clapped-out, world’s worst-polluting coal generator
For the past 15 years Hazelwood has returned profits to its private owners who are not even in Australia. Now they effectively want the state to pay for the replacement of Hazelwood.
Hazelwood protest included ‘ordinary people’, not just guys in wombat suits
Yesterday’s protest at Hazelwood power station was billed as a day of “community protest and non-violent mass civil disobedience”. Yet despite the small numbers, what was remarkable was the ‘ordinariness’ of the crowd, writes Ian McHugh.
Politics has failed — time for civil disobedience
The protesters who expect to be arrested this weekend in the campaign to close down Hazelwood power station may break the law, but they have justice on their side.
