A Newcastle-based battery manufacturer—Energy Renaissance—has collapsed. Insolvent. Done. Kaput. And guess what? This is after they sucked over $750,000 from taxpayers. Money that should have been spent on real industry, real jobs, not this green fantasy.
And who was standing there grinning like they’d won the lottery? Dan Repacholi and Kate Washington And Meyrl Swanson. They called this project a success. A success? Really? It’s a failure of epic proportions. Money wasted, workers betrayed, local industry left hanging. And they expect applause. Pathetic.
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