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She keeps the Victorian You can also view our latest publicationpower blackouts.Its alreadyGreens at bay with a simple FREE online at: happening: Victorians will pay 31approach: this is to do everything www.holstadvertising.com/The-Gemper cent more for power from Julythe Greens want so they dont get along with previous editions. 1. Victorian small businesses willthe chance to do it themselves Publisher: pay 33 per cent more. Both risesone day. Her policy has preserved Holst Advertising will be the highest in the nation. a multitude of Labor seats and Display Advertising: We are being warned thathelped pressure the Liberals in Jason: 0428 366 651the east coast States will facetheir increasingly green electoral Rick: 0413 278 422significant gas shortages over theHazelwood, then Victorias secondMinister Sonya Kilkenny set backheartland. Office:(03) 9686 0858 next three years. Bass Strait gaslargest power station, which led toindefinitely Viva Energys proposedBut it cant go on forever.Editorial Material:flows will contract 16 per centits premature closure in 2017. ThisLNG terminal near GeelongBeginning with these power news@holstadvertising.comthis winter and will halve by 2027. complemented Victoria totallybecause she wasnt happy aboutprice rises, way out of proportion rick@holstadvertising.com In tandem, the Yallourn powerbanning onshore gas exploration,the environmental and culturalcompared to the rest of the Advertising Material: station is to close in five years anddespite its near certain presenceimpacts. 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You can already see it in the advertiser and do not necessarily reflectis committed to achieving 95 perVictoria is now making lifehouses in winter. the more pragmatic rhetoric of the that of the publisher and its policies.cent wind and sun by 2035.Hencealmost impossible for LNGThe Australian Energy MarketAlbanese Government: gas is no Editorial Note: the pretty pictures of windmillsimports, the States immediateOperator (AEMO) is seriouslylonger evil and it might even be The Great Eastern Mail encourages readersoff the Ninety Mile Beach and thepotential source of new supplyconcerned about the east coastessential for decades to come.to send in their opinions and views on anyVictorian legislative ban on farmersgiven the onshore bans. VictoriaStates putting their net zeroIts not impossible for the matter relating to the region. If you have aobjecting to power lines cuttingrefused to approve AGLs proposedcarbon objectives above theirAndrews Government to pivot story you would like to put forward, pleasethrough their properties. LNG terminal at Crib Point twoability to provide for any form ofin favour of gas. The Premier is contact our staff (above), and you may haveThe main architect of Victoriasyears ago because of possiblebackup. But it reserves its loudestfamous for his 48 hour conversion your own piece published.energy experiment is Lilyimpacts to nearby wetlands. Thisshrieks for Victoria, which isfrom combatting Covid at any Advertising: DAmbrosio, Victorias Energyis despite the presence of an oilpaying no attention whatsoever.cost to living with it at hardly Advertising material created by theMinister. Shes been holding thatrefinery and a Colorbond steelThe Albanese government isany cost instead. 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