{"id":29894,"date":"2017-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/revealed-the-deal-that-could-have-saved-sa-1-billion\/"},"modified":"2017-03-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T00:00:00","slug":"revealed-the-deal-that-could-have-saved-sa-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/revealed-the-deal-that-could-have-saved-sa-1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"REVEALED &#8212; The deal that could have saved SA $1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Opposition leader Steven Marshall has called the Weatherill government\u2019s \u201cbillion dollar bungle\u201d the biggest public failure since the State Bank collapse.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/david-and-will\/id1167323375?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>David and Will podcast on iTunes here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday it emerged the government had rejected a deal to keep the state\u2019s northern power station running for $25 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was rejected by Tom Koutsantonis and Jay Weatherill and the Labor party in South Australia because they put the green ideology before the people of South Australia,\u201d Mr Marshall told David and Will on FIVEAA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely scandalous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s the biggest failure of public policy that we\u2019ve had in this state since the State Bank collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a three year deal to keep stability in our grid and to keep power prices low in this state. It\u2019s a billion dollar bungle by Jay Weatherill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a disgraceful situation. Jay Weatherill should hang his head in shame.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Marshall said the <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/state-gov-reveals-550-million-plan-to-fix-power-crisis\"><strong>government\u2019s $550 million power plan<\/strong><\/a> was \u201ccompletely in tatters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow it has been revealed that a very affordable deal was on the table to keep base load power in South Australia, to manage the transition to renewable energy in an orderly way and it was only going to cost the taxpayer $8 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c$8 million to save hundreds and hundreds of jobs at Leigh Creek, hundreds of jobs at Port Augusta, to keep our energy prices down and keep stability in our grid &#8212; and it was rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/sportsday-sa\/did-the-adelaide-crows-make-a-draft-blunder-asks-kane-cornes\"><strong>KANE CORNES: DID THE CROWS MAKE A DRAFT BLUNDER?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/david-and-will-s-on-air-stoush-over-sa-boycott\"><strong>DAVID &amp; WILL\u2019S ON AIR STOUSH OVER SA BOYCOTT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition leader Steven Marshall has called the Weatherill government\u2019s \u201cbillion dollar bungle\u201d the biggest public failure since the State Bank collapse. 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On Tuesday it emerged the government had rejected a deal to keep the state\u2019s northern power station running for $25 million. \u201cIt was rejected by Tom Koutsantonis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>REVEALED - The deal that could have saved SA $1 billion - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/revealed-the-deal-that-could-have-saved-sa-1-billion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"REVEALED -- The deal that could have saved SA $1 billion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Opposition leader Steven Marshall has called the Weatherill government\u2019s \u201cbillion dollar bungle\u201d the biggest public failure since the State Bank collapse. 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