Simon Bevilacqua The Sunday Tasmanian
HYDRO Tasmania secretly plotted to influence a scientific committee responsible for keeping an eye on Basslink’s impact on the Gordon River.
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The Hydro strategy was criticised last week by political commentator Richard Herr, freedom of information law expert Rick Snell and Basslink academic Ronlyn Duncan. They said the Hydro tactics potentially undermined the committee’s credibility and subverted the reason the committee was formed. “My suspicion is this sort of thing is not uncommon and is symptomatic of problems within Tasmania’s public administration,” Mr Snell said.
The controversial “risk management” strategy is revealed in a document which detailed the final Basslink business case for the Hydro board in December 2002.
And:
Basslink hinged on fragile river
Hydro defends risk strategy
