Tasmanian Labor Slashing workforce is a massive betrayal by Liberals Energy Minister must explain the decision The Liberal Government and Minister for Energy Guy Barnett must explain why Hydro is slashing five percent of its workforce in a major betrayal of its promise to make Tasmania an international renewables leader. Shadow Energy Minister David O’Byrne said the Liberals had promised a jobs bonanza with a renewable strategy but the first act of Hydro’s new CEO was to instead cut jobs. “This is an absolute betrayal of the renewable energy promise by Guy Barnett,” Mr O’Byrne said. “At a time when they are telling the world we are the centre of renewable energy expertise and the government is promising thousands of jobs, the first act of the new hand-picked CEO is to cut five per cent of the workforce.