ABC reported that Kurri Kurri Aluminum workers are expected testify before an Upper House inquiry about how the scrapping of a power contract has jeopardized the smelter's future.
Last year the Mr Eric Roozendaal State Treasurer quashed Hydro's contract with Delta Electricity which Upper House Nationals MP Mr Trevor Khan says was directly linked to Labor's sale of electricity assets.
Mr Khan who is a member of the Parliamentary Committee investigating the sale said that the evidence given to the inquiry today should shed some light on the impact of the Treasurer's interference. Plainly the workers and their families are very concerned about the impact that the failure to sign the contract may have.
He said that not just in an immediate sense of how Hydro reacts to it, but in the longer term sense of how Hydro will invest in the plant. Whether this shakes confidence by management in dealing with the Keneally Labor Government.
Mr Khan said that their evidence will be important for the inquiry. They have a real concern that if this contract is not signed then this plant is at real risk of closure. They have made plain their concern that the decision by the Government to pull the plug on the contract must have had something to do with the sale price for Delta Electricity. And their concern is if it had an effect on the sale price before the sale how do you get the contract signed now.
（Sourced from www.abc.net.au）
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