’You couldn’t make this stuff up’: Irony as Tasmania’s ’battery of the nation’ is flat

Tasmania’s wealth of hydroelectric energy has been eyed off by other government’s wanting to “tap into” the state’s resources which has led to the “battery of the nation running flat,” says The Australian’s Environment Editor Graham Lloyd. “This comes straight from the file of ‘you couldn’t make this stuff up’,” Mr Lloyd told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “The irony is, with Tasmania supplying hydro elsewhere, to firm up supplies on the mainland it has resorted to burning gas to sort out its own needs.”