BELL BAY POWER SALE
	What Was The Deal Sweetener?
	The Tasmanian Greens today responded to news that the publicly owned Bell bay Power Station had been sold calling on the government to fully disclose any deal sweetener that may have been done to make it more attractive to Alinta. Greens Shadow Energy spokesperson Kim Booth MHA said today that the sudden turn around smacked of a special deal being done at the public’s expense, and called on the Energy Minister, David Llewellyn to either rule out that any deal sweetner had been made at the public’s expense or disclose any of the original deal provisions that may have now been dropped. “Energy Minister Llewllyn refused to rule out the public giving a hidden subsidy to enable the deal to proceed, when I asked him in parliament to rule out increased electricity prices or a discount on the pipe capacity agreement,” Mr Booth said. “It is simply unbelievable that a deal that fell over two days ago due to a lack of gas to fill the pipe, could be resurrected so quickly without the public doing a dive.” “It is well known in the Corporate world that doing business with the Lennon government is like stealing corn from a blind chook and I would not be surprised if this has come true again.” ‘Minister Llewellyn must now come clean as to wether the deal was identical and on the same terms, apart from the gas supply condition precedent.” “If the government will not rule out a cost shift to the public purse or to electricity consumers then we will know that another Lennon Lemon has fallen from the tree leaving a sour taste in the public’s mouth,” Mr Booth said.