❓ Mr. Watson questions whether gas price hikes in Albany are to fund government election promises, specifically a gas pipeline. Mr. Barnett denies this, stating the increase covers current service delivery costs and the pipeline is intended to be privately constructed.
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ALBANY GAS TARIFFS AND PIPELINE
As a supplementary question, is this extra hike in the gas price the first instalment the government will be slugging Albany families with to pay for the government’s election promises? Mr C.J. BARNETT
As a supplementary question, is this extra hike in the gas price the first instalment the government will be slugging Albany families with to pay for the government’s election promises? Mr C.J. BARNETT
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No. The increase in prices is to pay for the cost of the delivery of the current services. They do not relate in any way to the construction costs of a future gas pipeline, the details of which we released as part of our election. We put out the estimated cost at the time. I do not know what the current estimate is. Those documents are publicly available. From memory, it was $225 million or thereabouts, but I am not exactly sure off the top of my head. Mr P.B. Watson : You said $20 million earlier on. Mr C.J. BARNETT : That $20 million is in the forward estimates. We would expect the pipeline to be privately constructed. Mr P.B. Watson : You haven’t done anything. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: No. The increase in prices is to pay for the cost of the delivery of the current services. They do not relate in any way to the construction costs of a future gas pipeline, the details of which we released as part of our election. We put out the estimated cost at the time. I do not know what the current estimate is. Those documents are publicly available. From memory, it was $225 million or thereabouts, but I am not exactly sure off the top of my head. Mr P.B. Watson : You said $20 million earlier on. Mr C.J. BARNETT : That $20 million is in the forward estimates. We would expect the pipeline to be privately constructed. Mr P.B. Watson : You haven’t done anything. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
No. The increase in prices is to pay for the cost of the delivery of the current services. They do not relate in any way to the construction costs of a future gas pipeline, the details of which we released as part of our election. We put out the estimated cost at the time. I do not know what the current estimate is. Those documents are publicly available. From memory, it was $225 million or thereabouts, but I am not exactly sure off the top of my head. Mr P.B. Watson : You said $20 million earlier on. Mr C.J. BARNETT : That $20 million is in the forward estimates. We would expect the pipeline to be privately constructed. Mr P.B. Watson : You haven’t done anything. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Mr P.B. Watson : You said $20 million earlier on. Mr C.J. BARNETT : That $20 million is in the forward estimates. We would expect the pipeline to be privately constructed. Mr P.B. Watson : You haven’t done anything. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : That $20 million is in the forward estimates. We would expect the pipeline to be privately constructed. Mr P.B. Watson : You haven’t done anything. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Mr P.B. Watson : You haven’t done anything. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: No. The increase in prices is to pay for the cost of the delivery of the current services. They do not relate in any way to the construction costs of a future gas pipeline, the details of which we released as part of our election. We put out the estimated cost at the time. I do not know what the current estimate is. Those documents are publicly available. From memory, it was $225 million or thereabouts, but I am not exactly sure off the top of my head. Mr P.B. Watson : You said $20 million earlier on. Mr C.J. BARNETT : That $20 million is in the forward estimates. We would expect the pipeline to be privately constructed. Mr P.B. Watson : You haven’t done anything. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
No. The increase in prices is to pay for the cost of the delivery of the current services. They do not relate in any way to the construction costs of a future gas pipeline, the details of which we released as part of our election. We put out the estimated cost at the time. I do not know what the current estimate is. Those documents are publicly available. From memory, it was $225 million or thereabouts, but I am not exactly sure off the top of my head. Mr P.B. Watson : You said $20 million earlier on. Mr C.J. BARNETT : That $20 million is in the forward estimates. We would expect the pipeline to be privately constructed. Mr P.B. Watson : You haven’t done anything. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Mr P.B. Watson : You said $20 million earlier on. Mr C.J. BARNETT : That $20 million is in the forward estimates. We would expect the pipeline to be privately constructed. Mr P.B. Watson : You haven’t done anything. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : That $20 million is in the forward estimates. We would expect the pipeline to be privately constructed. Mr P.B. Watson : You haven’t done anything. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Mr P.B. Watson : You haven’t done anything. Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, I am sure that you are interested in the provision of services in regional areas. It will be a privately constructed pipeline. I know that members opposite do not believe in using natural gas as a clean energy source or in the expansion of the gas pipeline system in this state. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
The SPEAKER : Order! The member for Albany has had a chance to ask a question and a supplementary question, but he should not interject. I formally call him for the first time.
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