EMPLOYMENT at Liddell power station will conclude for about 300 people on Friday, and federal energy minister Chris Bowen comes to congratulate them ('Power praise', Newcastle Herald 26/4). While they will be redeployed, is Mr Bowen able to explain where they are going to get work in their near vicinity when other power stations like Bayswater follow suit, or not his problem?
I don't know which planet he is on but he and his boss Albanese promised that going green would create some 600,000 thousand jobs. Let's see them look after those bearing the brunt of Liddell's closure, or will they be put in the too-hard basket?
