Jeremy Rockliff

Premier of Tasmania



15 January 2016

, Minister for Energy

Response to the Tasmanian Small Business Council

I note the comments of the Tasmanian Small Business Council today.

As soon as the Government was informed of the Basslink outage we made it clear to Hydro Tasmania that the sale of the combined cycle gas turbine was off the table.

The previous approval for Hydro Tasmania to consider such a sale has been withdrawn by the Government.

The key priority in responding to this issue is energy security and we will use all available assets to ensure energy security is maintained.



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