Sydney Ferries explored using Firepower
Interesting to see NSW Fair Trade Minister Virginia Judge expose the dangers of dodgy fuel-saving devices on television last night. But what has been kept very quiet is that her own government was one of those nearly sucked in by Firepower back in September and October 2006. As I reveal in my book, several meetings were held between Firepower representatives and the then staff of the Deputy Premier John Watkins. The plan had been to introduce Firepower’s “technology” to Sydney ferries. The whole mad plan is outlined in several documents I obtained when researching the book, including “proof” that the products worked from a scientific institution that had closed down ten years earlier (but who checks such things?). Of course, it never got anywhere. The SMH ran its first story on Firepower in January 2007 and that was the end of that. But a similar plan to use the Firepower “technology” almost went ahead at the Labor-dominated Canada Bay Council. The plan was to use it on six garbage trucks. It too was scrapped after the first SMH story came out.