I CAN’T help feel that if I was at school with the Australian Energy Market Operator, that they’d be that one kid who steals your jumper then invites you to their birthday party.
The one yelling swear words from the top of the monkey bars, the one not listening to the older and wiser kids around them, and the one who has to bring his very own cricket bat, because even though it’s only play time with the Grade 3 and 4 kids, their cricket bat it better than anyone else’s.
I get the feeling they’d be that kid that spits the dummy, then goes around belittling anyone who calls out their atrocious behaviour.
All us other kids have learnt to play nicely together and get along, and make the school yard a nice place for everyone to be their best, but AEMO’s still pinching people’s lunch and wrecking their games by not playing by the rules or ethics.
They’re the bully with their own agenda, the one who’s shifty, who doesn’t tell the truth, and who says one thing and does the exact opposite.
I don’t think AEMO would be someone the school would be proud of.
AEMO would probably say things like, “VNI West will also open up new areas in Victoria for sustainable renewable energy generation development”, when we really know that AEMO’s current preferred route has been identified as having less Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) development than that of Option 3A.
AEMO would try to bury the fact in their own homework (or VNI West Consultation Report) that identifies Option 5 as offering the lowest indicative improvements to REZ of all seven options. They’d hope that no-one noticed that Option 5 offers the least REZ potential.
I reckon AEMO would stand up at assembly on a Monday morning and say something like they, “will provide responses to all the written submissions to the consultation report”.
But we all know that they’d probably create confusion around the submission deadline as a way to exclude so many of our responses. They’d probably say things like, “any late submissions will be considered and included to the extent possible”.
You know that feeling you get when the wool’s getting pulled over your eyes? AEMO gives me that feeling. All the time.
I don’t trust AEMO. I don’t trust their analysis, or their thoroughness, or their willingness to put in the hard yards to do their homework properly.
I don’t trust what they say when they organise a meeting then don’t turn up.
Or when they want to talk with groups of three or four people down in the corner of the playground, but won’t say the same thing at assembly.
I reckon AEMO are that kid who spreads rumours just to tear friendships apart. I don’t like AEMO, and I think we should get one of the Year 12 kids to do their homework.
Glenden Watts
Glengower
