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Country's largest wind turbine maker sacks 24 workers
Keppel Prince general manager Steve Garner said wind farm construction had stalled across Australia, largely due to a design flaw in federal legislation setting a target of about 20 per cent of electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
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June 7, 2012
by Adam Morton
in The Age
As Australia prepares to launch into what is billed as a clean energy future, its largest wind turbine manufacturer has sacked 24 staff because of a lack of business.
Keppel Prince cut welding, painting and processing jobs at its Portland plant yesterday after finishing work on the final wind farm on its books, a 13-tower project near Hamilton.
Including voluntary redundancies, it has shed about 50 of its 450 workers in the past two months.
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