❓ Question on Notice regarding the Carpenter government's response to the Apache Energy gas plant explosion, focusing on diesel supplies, prioritisation, equitable access, and preventing profiteering. The Minister's answer refers to the Gas Supply Coordinating Committee and its efforts to manage the crisis.
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APACHE ENERGY GAS PLANT EXPLOSION — DIESEL SUPPLIES
I note that the Carpenter government is committed to ensuring diesel is available to replace natural gas where possible. (1) How is the government prioritising industry and public sector access to both gas and diesel supplies? (2) Will the government provide the public with a copy of its priority access plan? (3) How will the government ensure that Western Australian industries have equitable access to gas and diesel supplies? (4) What will the government do to prevent those sectors of the industry that can more easily transfer to diesel from on-selling gas supplies at an inflated cost? (5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN
I note that the Carpenter government is committed to ensuring diesel is available to replace natural gas where possible. (1) How is the government prioritising industry and public sector access to both gas and diesel supplies? (2) Will the government provide the public with a copy of its priority access plan? (3) How will the government ensure that Western Australian industries have equitable access to gas and diesel supplies? (4) What will the government do to prevent those sectors of the industry that can more easily transfer to diesel from on-selling gas supplies at an inflated cost? (5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN
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I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(1) How is the government prioritising industry and public sector access to both gas and diesel supplies? (2) Will the government provide the public with a copy of its priority access plan? (3) How will the government ensure that Western Australian industries have equitable access to gas and diesel supplies? (4) What will the government do to prevent those sectors of the industry that can more easily transfer to diesel from on-selling gas supplies at an inflated cost? (5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(2) Will the government provide the public with a copy of its priority access plan? (3) How will the government ensure that Western Australian industries have equitable access to gas and diesel supplies? (4) What will the government do to prevent those sectors of the industry that can more easily transfer to diesel from on-selling gas supplies at an inflated cost? (5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(3) How will the government ensure that Western Australian industries have equitable access to gas and diesel supplies? (4) What will the government do to prevent those sectors of the industry that can more easily transfer to diesel from on-selling gas supplies at an inflated cost? (5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(4) What will the government do to prevent those sectors of the industry that can more easily transfer to diesel from on-selling gas supplies at an inflated cost? (5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(1) How is the government prioritising industry and public sector access to both gas and diesel supplies? (2) Will the government provide the public with a copy of its priority access plan? (3) How will the government ensure that Western Australian industries have equitable access to gas and diesel supplies? (4) What will the government do to prevent those sectors of the industry that can more easily transfer to diesel from on-selling gas supplies at an inflated cost? (5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(2) Will the government provide the public with a copy of its priority access plan? (3) How will the government ensure that Western Australian industries have equitable access to gas and diesel supplies? (4) What will the government do to prevent those sectors of the industry that can more easily transfer to diesel from on-selling gas supplies at an inflated cost? (5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(3) How will the government ensure that Western Australian industries have equitable access to gas and diesel supplies? (4) What will the government do to prevent those sectors of the industry that can more easily transfer to diesel from on-selling gas supplies at an inflated cost? (5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(4) What will the government do to prevent those sectors of the industry that can more easily transfer to diesel from on-selling gas supplies at an inflated cost? (5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(5) Has the government given consideration to the risk of some energy suppliers profiteering from the crisis? Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
I thank the member for the question. (1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
(1)-(5) Those questions really go to the work being done by the gas supply coordinating committee that the Premier has just referred to. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call to order the member for Roe for the second time and the Leader of the Opposition for the first time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The membership of that committee includes those people involved in addressing the situation—namely, the stakeholders who can make decisions about the availability of diesel and about switching from gas to diesel—and those people from the Office of Energy who can help and guide the stakeholders through the process. The Premier’s office, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and my ministerial office are represented on that committee, as is the Office of Energy, which comes under my portfolio and which is coordinating the whole exercise. The Chamber of Minerals and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are represented on the committee both as consumers and representatives of industrial consumers. As the major gas transporter, the operator of the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline is represented on the committee. Verve Energy, the key generator in the network, is also represented. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy. The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The two retailers, Synergy and Alinta—the latter obviously as a gas distributor on the network as well as a retailer of both electricity and gas—are also represented on that committee. They are the key people. Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr T. Buswell : Who chairs the committee? Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The Office of Energy chairs the committee. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The reason those people are on that committee is that they are the key people who need to be involved in the day-to-day decisions for addressing this crisis. Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Dr G.G. Jacobs interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Roe to order for the third and last time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : We—that is the Premier, the Minister for State Development and me—are regularly updated on the work of that committee. Obviously we will have input into the role of the committee when necessary. However, to address the question of the priorities for diesel—which I am sure the member wants addressed—the Premier has just indicated the work being done by the committee and all the oil companies to source diesel from overseas. Furthermore, the plant in Kwinana is working flat out to produce diesel. To ensure diesel supplies are available to all customers, the committee is taking advice from those customers about the level of their demand for diesel. Obviously somebody will have to place an order for the diesel and somebody will have to pay for it. The oil companies will not source that diesel, particularly from overseas, unless somebody is going to pay for it. Therefore, the coordination work of the committee is to look at the aggregated demand and ensure that those oil companies can supply the diesel. That is the first and most critical thing. Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr C.C. Porter : Who makes the call? Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : In terms of equity and who makes that call, that is why the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy are on that committee. In order to provide feedback to the committee and prioritise who should get looked after with the availability of gas or diesel, five priorities have been identified. Firstly, energy infrastructure is to be given top priority to maintain the state’s capability to supply gas and electricity to users. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : Mr Speaker, this is a critically important issue. I am providing information to the opposition that it requested. Do members of the opposition want to listen to the answer? If so, they should listen. These priorities have been agreed to by all the people on the committee. The second priority is essential services, which are defined as those critical services that have the potential to seriously impact upon the health and safety of the community, and this includes essential public transport and communications. Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr T. Buswell : What about food? Is food an essential service? The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The SPEAKER : I call the Leader of the Opposition to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : The third priority is the essential supply to residential customers. That would minimise the potential for health impacts and disruption to the community. As members would know, consumers are encouraged to reduce energy consumption. That has been made public by Alinta as a supplier of gas and electricity and by the Premier on numerous occasions. The fourth priority is industries that are providing essential goods and services to the WA community. They will have a higher priority in their allocation of energy than those that do not provide essential goods and services. This will minimise disruption to the community and recognise the important services that these industries provide. The fifth priority is that every effort will be made to maximise the availability of supply to all other industries, recognising the importance to the state and the national economy. The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
The most important thing to recognise is that we have unbelievable cooperation across all aspects of the economy, particularly from representatives of industry, who have come together to set these priorities for the allocation of available energy, which includes gas and diesel. They have done that with all good intentions and with a collective thought about those people who will be suffering the consequences of a shortage of gas. The committee is watching closely who is gouging the market as a result of the shortage of gas or diesel.
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