{"id":30845,"date":"2016-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/leon-byner-and-tom-koutsantonis-clash-over-electricity-prices\/"},"modified":"2016-07-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T00:00:00","slug":"leon-byner-and-tom-koutsantonis-clash-over-electricity-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/leon-byner-and-tom-koutsantonis-clash-over-electricity-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Byner and Kouts clash over electricity prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Leon Byner and Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis have clashed on FIVEAA over unaffordable power prices in South Australia.<\/h3>\n<p>In a fiery interview on Tuesday, Leon told Mr Koutsantonis: \u201cI think you\u2019re missing the point, minister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to run a state and build employment, and if one of the input costs is prohibitive what do you reckon people are going to do?\u201d Leon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is not enough base load, which for this state can only be gas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/274318480&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr Koutsantonis said more gas was being produced than was being sold to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the issue is base load power, then you and I both know that there is much more base load power in South Australia that has chosen not to come on because they\u2019re selling their gas on the national spot market,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason people are selling their gas on the spot market is there are states in Australia that are no longer allowing the exploration of gas,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leon told the minister he had a responsibility to ensure energy prices were affordable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have it yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR RIGHT NOW<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/walker-stalks-patty\"><strong>CROWS STAR WON\u2019T STOP PESTERING NBA CHAMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/is-your-smart-meter-watching-you\"><strong>THIS COMMON HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE IS SPYING ON YOU<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Byner and Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis have clashed on FIVEAA over unaffordable power prices in South Australia. In a fiery interview on Tuesday, Leon told Mr Koutsantonis: \u201cI think you\u2019re missing the point, minister.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re trying to run a state and build employment, and if one of the input costs is prohibitive what do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7780,"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":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","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>Byner and Kouts clash over electricity prices - 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\/leon-byner-and-tom-koutsantonis-clash-over-electricity-prices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Byner and Kouts clash over electricity prices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leon Byner and Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis have clashed on FIVEAA over unaffordable power prices in South Australia. 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