Jay Weatherill: natural born business killer.
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With the exception of the wind industry, South Australia’s hapless Labor government will never be accused of economic favouritism: it treats all of its business owners with utter contempt.
Rocketing power prices, routine load shedding and blackouts affect miners, bakers and brewers, alike.
BHP Billiton warns for crisis in power market
The Australian
Matt Chambers
3 March 2017
BHP Billiton is facing a more than doubling of east coast power prices because of the dwindling effectiveness of the National Electricity Market and rising gas prices.
The mining giant has called for government subsidies to increase South Australia’s power supply reliability and prevent costly outages like the one that wiped $US105 million off the big miner’s first-half profit.
The call, made in a submission to Chief Scientist Alan Finkel’s review of future security of the NEM, came with the revelation that BHP’s power bill…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Mar 09, 2017 @ 21:49:33
SA Premier responsible for higher gas prices ???
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