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ADD IT TO THE LIST ”Without coal fired power, places like Tomago will close down. "All those workers in her electorate will lose their jobs. Yet it is the Labor Party that has a plan to kick-start—they said it, kick-start—the closure of coal fired power station's in their policy. I say to the member for Newcastle about the coal fired power station that the workers in Tomago rely on, it is the policy of the Labor Party and the Greens to close those power coal fired power stations down.?" Craig Kelly Hansard : House of Representatives Feb 14, 2017 https://t.co/GBtkKTSnpe I warned back in 2017 that Tomago could not survive if Liddell power station closed down, because you cannot economically run an aluminium smelter on intermittent weather dependent generation and "big batteries". But Labor and even many of my Coalition colleagues mocked. Tomago is a massive industrial facility north of Newcastle that employs 1000+ staff as well as 200 contractors. It uses 10% of NSW’s electricity. It creates wealth. It’s production contributes $2.2 billion annually to the Australian economy, of which $800 million is spent locally. The smelter produces 590,000 tonnes of aluminium every year, which is 37% of Australia’s primary aluminium. 90% of the product made at Tomago is exported to the Asia-Pacific region. The site area is 500 hectares. It should be worth tens of billions, but now the owner of Tomago has written its value down $0. It’s completely worthless. It’s a write off, because it can no longer get internationally competitively electricity. And once it’s gone, it will never come back. The Net Zero insanity has destroyed billions in the asset value of Tomago, and when it closes there won’t just be 1200 direct job losses, but $800 million will disappear from the local economy annually, which kill thousands of other jobs and small businesses in the region. It’s a tragedy for Australia. But we’ve done it to ourselves by electing weak and cowardly politicians who bend over to globalist agenda of Net Zero. This should be a wake-up call for the nation, but sadly we have too many selfish Teal voters that think they are immune from the financial consequences of Tomago closing - and place more importance on their self-indulgent virtue signalling. https://t.co/1YUyes70FV