You wrote "A broken up bbp will attract foreign owners but no government would allow a foreign company to control power supplies"
This is incorrect. TRUenergy previously owned the Torrens Island Power station in SA. TRUenergy is owned by CLP Power Asia, a subsidiary of the CLP Group. The CLP Group is based in Hong Kong and is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Information obtained from TheAge and TRUenergy website.
This is only one example, there are others.
Butchy
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