Australia's Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles based her AUD 40 Billion development program on a plan to sell solar power to Singapore, despite the absence of a power supply agreement between plan promoter Sun Cable and the Government Of Singapore

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

         NT CM Natasha Flyes and PM Albanese

In June 2022  Australia's Northern Territory (NT) Chief Minister Natasha Fyles said: 

 So I look forward to working with the incoming Commonwealth Government that Sun Cable project is huge and every Australian should go and Google it after they watch the news tonight and see the investment in the Northern Territory and the fact that we will have a cable linking Australia to Singapore and this is an exciting opportunity for us to have our renewables going offshore, giving us economic opportunity.

The project is said to be worth AUD 30 Billion, and according to the ABC the NT government has cited the project in its plans for a $40b economy.

As reported here, that project does not have that most basic element for any power project, a power purchase agreement, in this case, its primary client, the Government Of Singapore.  Channel News Asia Of Singapore reported in June 2022:

   Sun Cable still needs the green light to be able to transmit its solar energy in a few year's time. It is optimistic it can reach an agreement with Singapore authorities to be allowed to hook up its power link, but did not disclose when it expected that might happen.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Albanese's Sun Cable fantasy collapses - Albo must now explain why he misled Australians, and Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

    

Albanese has used his position to promote Sun Cable, in Australia and overseas, despite Sun Cable having no power supply agreement with the Government Of Singapore.

A dispute between Mike Canon- Brookes  and Twiggy Forrest is said to have been the reason why Sun Cable has been put into administration.  The ABC is reporting that there are " disagreements about the funding and direction of the company......these included the significant amounts of cash that Sun Cable was spending, and its failure to achieve certain milestones".

As reported by this writer Sun Cable, Prime Minister Albanese of Australia, and the Chief Minister of The Northern Territory, Natahsa Fyles, all claimed that Sun Cable would supply Singapore with solar power from a solar bank in the Northern Territory, when in fact no agreement had been reached with the Government Of Singapore.

All three, but in particular Albanese and Fyles, must now explain why they misled Australians, and account for all any government resources provided the project.

TO BE READ WITH

 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-11/sun-cable-enters-administration/101845100

Monday, October 24, 2022

PM Lee Hsien Loong confronted with another Crooked Bridge dilemma. From the south, out of Australia, Australia's PM Albanese demands that Hsien Loong share his fantasy of a solar power cable connecting Singapore and Australia

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

The crooked bridge project was mooted by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad before he retired as premier in 2003. PHOTO: GERBANG PERDANA

For much of the past decade Singapore has had to endure demands from Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad that the causeway connecting the two countries be replaced by what has become known as the Crooked Bridge. His resignation as prime minister of Malaysia in 2020 seems to have put that demand to rest but now it seems Singapore and its prime minster Lee Hsien Loong are being tormented by a similar demand, this time from the south,  from Australia's PM Albanese  who  demands that  Hsien Loong share his fantasy of a solar  power cable connecting Singapore and Australia. 

As this writer noted, Albanese seemed to be channeling BJ Habibie, the former Indonesian President (who is supposed to have described Singapore as a little red dot) when he told Hsien Loong at a press conference in Canberra: 

"This island continent of ours is a little bit bigger than the island continent of Singapore...... And hence, a project like Sun Cable, which has the potential to export clean energy to Singapore, is the ultimate win-win. If this project can be made to work - and I believe it can be - you will see the world's largest solar farm, you will see the export of energy across distances, the production of many jobs here in Australia, including manufacturing jobs".

Hsien Loong said nothing in response, and that is to be expected for  Hsien Loong, his government, and the relevant authorities have yet to provide Sun Cable any approvals whatsoever to Sun Cable:

Infrastructure Australia says Sun Cable's Darwin-Singapore solar cable qualifies for taxpayer funding, Singapore says Sun Cable does not have permission to import electricity into Singapore

While Mahathir's insistence on the Crooked Bridge despite a lack of interest from Singapore caused local Malaysian media to investigate the motivation for the project, there has yet to be any serious investigation in Australia into Albanese's fantasy.

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