Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Anthony Albanese, PM Australia said the Sun Cable project is an example of what he means when he says Australia can be a renewable energy superpower - Despite Sun Cable's collapse he continues to destroy Australia's coal, oil and gas industries that have earned billions in real export dollars

by  Ganesh Sahathevan  


At a press conference in Canberra on 18 October 2022, just three months before Sun Cable collapsed, Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister Of Australia, told Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister Of Singapore


 Sun Cable is just one part of what I talk about when I say Australia can be a renewable energy superpower for the world.


Albanese has not said anything about the impact Sun Cable's collapse will have on his plans to transform Australia into " a renewable energy superpower for the world".

Meanwhile he continues to destroy Australia's coal, oil and gas industries that have powered the country and earned billions in export dollars. 


TO BE READ WITH 

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

PM Albanese of Australia told PM Lee of Singapore that Sun Cable " is the ultimate win-win" just 3 months before Sun Cable collapsed - Australian media has never been shy to investigate and criticise Asian politicians and their fantasy projects, must now do the same to the their own Prime Minister who has misled Australians and Singaporeans

by Ganesh Sahathevan  


    Albanese tweeting a family photo with the Lees


At a press conference in Canberra on 18 October 2022  Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister Of Australia, told Lee Hsien Loong,Prime Minister Of Singapore


.............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. And the prospect of Sun Cable is just one part of what I talk about when I say Australia can be a renewable energy superpower for the world.


Just under three months later the project collapsed, for some very obvious reasons( see story below). 

Australian media has never been shy to investigate and criticise Asian politicians and their fantasy projects. The Bakun Dam project promoted by then Prime Minister Of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad which was meant to transmit hydropower across the South China Sea is one eerily similar example.

Australian media must now do the same to the their own Prime Minister who has misled Australians and Singaporeans.


TO BE READ WITH 

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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