WESTERN Australia's opposition is calling for the head of a minister over what it says is the waste of $250 million of taxpayers' money on the refurbishment of a 47-year-old power station.
The long-running saga of the Muja AB power station resurfaced on Wednesday, when WA Labor leader Mark McGowan said heads should roll over the stop-start revamp of the facility south of Perth.
Premier Colin Barnett said in 2009 refurbishing the coal-fired power station would cost the public nothing, with $100 million of private money earmarked to complete the project.
But four years on, the opposition says the project has cost the public $250 million after massive technical issues surfaced, and remain unfixed.
"Colin Barnett promised that the Muja AB refurbishment would cost 'around $100 million' and be 100 per cent privately funded with no cost to the state or taxpayer," Mr McGowan said.
"The premier must now explain how taxpayers have been left with a $250 million loss."
The opposition said former energy minister Peter Collier, who is now WA's education minister, should resign over the losses incurred in the energy sector over the past four years, which they claim total nearly $1 billion.
"Today in parliament we will call for his dismissal, because we think these issues are so significant that someone in the government needs to pay a price for that," Mr McGowan said.
"Even the replacement energy minister Mike Nahan admits it has turned into 'a sow's ear' and it is giving him nightmares."
Premier Barnett had previously admitted in parliament the Muja project had been a mistake.
"That project has not gone well, and that is probably a great understatement," Mr Barnett said.
"The boiler system there has failed, and therefore, the cost of rehabilitating Muja A and B is way above what was estimated."
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