Hydro’s damage control over leaked document not for “commercial reasons”
Heavy redacted 10-year Asset Management Plan keeps Tasmanians in dark
Comprehensive white-out calls RTI process into question
Hydro assets owned by Tasmanians and they deserve the truth
Hydro Tasmania has gone to ludicrous lengths to keep the current and future state of taxpayer-owned assets secret from Tasmanians by heavily editing its 10-year Asset Management Plan with the clear knowledge that copies of the plan had already been circulated in the community.
Labor Leader Bryan Green said a copy of the 51-page Asset Plan released to the Opposition under Right To Information contained more than 50 redactions in an extraordinary attempt to hide the state of assets from Tasmanians.
“Hydro’s claims that what has been censored is for commercial or operational considerations is drawing an extremely long bow when what’s been edited out of this released document is for political purposes,” Mr Green said.
“Across generations now Tasmanians have ownership and pride of ownership in Hydro assets but the state of those assets now and into the future is being deliberately kept from them.
“Tasmanians want to know what Hydro is doing to protect their electricity-generating assets, particularly in the fall-out of the energy crisis.
“But it’s clear from this heavily redacted document that Hydro is determined to remain a secretive organisation – there are things they just don’t want Tasmanians to know.
“You also have to question why Hydro management have gone to such lengths to remove information that has already been extensively reported upon.
“The ludicrous process Hydro has undertaken by so heavily editing this document calls into question the integrity of the RTI process right across government.
“This exercise calls into question the manner in which the Hodgman Government has approached the RTI process from the moment it entered office.”
Bryan Green MP Labor Leader
