IAN MEIKLE. ruffle the feathers of Greens leader, government minister and anti-gas man Shane Rattenbury in the Assembly the other day.Â
Ian Meikle.
Ratters had been nudged to admit that the spanking new $300 million Civic office block, built to house 1100 ACT public servants, is powered by⦠(oh, no; oh, yes)
gas!
Despite contradicting his own government’s (subsequent) policy on smart energy, the ACT has signed a 20-year lease with an additional option of a further five years that could lock in the power source for up to 2046.
Given he’ll be 76 when the lease expires, there’s a bleakly amusing irony that the Greens leader will see out his political career in an office heated in winter and cooled in summer by reviled gas. Only losing an election, it seems, will save him.Â