If electricity ever stops flowing to the Tomago aluminium smelter, the results could be catastrophic. Molten metal in potlines would start to solidify. If enough equipment was ruined, the future of the entire plant would be at risk. Jobs may be lost, a community plunged into crisis.
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| Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, with Victorian state Energy Minister Lily D'Ambrosio, out selling his energy policy in Brunswick on Friday. |
Where better for Energy Minister Angus Taylor to head as Labor launched its energy policy on Thursday? Clad in a high-vis vest at the plant near Newcastle, he declared Labor's plan to transition to renewables a veritable death knell for Australia’s manufacturers. Electricity prices would lurch upwards. The lights would go out.
"If we want to keep heavy industry going in this country, if we want to keep the aluminium smelters going, the steel mills, the abattoirs ... if we want to keep these industries alive and well and competitive in this country, we’ve got to have low-cost affordable reliable sources of power,” Mr Taylor said.
Read the story from The Age by Nicole Hasham - “Is Labor's energy plan really a wrecking ball for industryIs Labor's energy plan really a wrecking ball for industry?”
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