NSW:NSW schools toxic heater cost blowout

AAP General News (Australia)
08-01-2010
NSW:NSW schools toxic heater cost blowout

Industry experts says replacing toxic gas heaters in NSW schools could take up to a
decade and the cost will balloon way past the 170 million dollars estimated by the state
government.

In another blow for Premier KRISTINA KENEALLY and her Education Minister VERITY FIRTH
.. the Sun Herald says some schools will have to have their entire electricity supply
upgraded .. at a cost of about 150 thousand dollars each .. to switch heating methods.

The paper says it has also learnt that sections of the NSW public service believe the
government's bungled commitment to replace 55 thousand heaters is a purely political decision
seven months out from an election.

They say unflued heaters .. millions of which are used in the US .. Britain and New
Zealand .. are perfectly safe.

AAP RTV ao/crh

KEYWORD: HEATERS (SYDNEY)

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