Govt borrowing to 'keep lights on'

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I saw a photo of Shane Jones standing next to a mountain of coal at the Huntly power station...Indonesian coal. He was almost line of sight away from Rotoraro mine, which the station was designed to run on, and is still producing coal. The newest coal generator in the big building is 40 years old, the oldest 50 years old, well past use by date, and they started to decommission it in 2012. He wants to run the coal units to 2035, there are no parts available for these machines, and the company/ies that made them probably went broke in the GFC. The power station is like the Cook Straight Ferries and the Fire Appliances, pushed well beyond service life and somebody elses fault when something goes wrong.

so it is true we send our coal overseas because its more valuable and import cheap coal?  Seems completely illogical