❓ Ms. Warr questions the Minister for Energy and Decarbonisation regarding the adequacy of community benefit guidelines for renewable energy projects, suggesting they are a distraction from the need for a comprehensive state planning policy. The Minister clarifies the guidelines are separate from the planning policy handled by the Minister for Planning and Lands.
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Renewable energy projects196.Ms Kirrilee Warrto
theMinister for Energy and Decarbonisation:I have a
supplementary question. Is this feeble attempt to deliver guidelines for
community benefits simply a diversion from the very real need to introduce a
comprehensive, legally enforceable state planning policy that will deliver
certainty to regional communities?Several
members interjected.The Speaker:Members! Members!
theMinister for Energy and Decarbonisation:I have a
supplementary question. Is this feeble attempt to deliver guidelines for
community benefits simply a diversion from the very real need to introduce a
comprehensive, legally enforceable state planning policy that will deliver
certainty to regional communities?Several
members interjected.The Speaker:Members! Members!
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17 June 2025
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Ms Amber-Jade Sanderson replied:Let me explain. This is not the planning policy; that
sits with the Minister for Planning and Lands. This iscommunity benefits.
This is a separate policy. We have the planning policy that sits alongside it.
The Minister for Planning and Lands is going through all the requirements that
he needs to implement that. This is a community benefits policy that sits
alongside that policy.The Speaker:Thank you, minister. Before I give the
member for Thornlie the call, member for Geraldton, that supplementary question
did have a lot of preamble to it. It was rather lengthy and may not have been
directed to the right minister. In the future, just keep it a bit shorter,
please.
Renewable energy projects
sits with the Minister for Planning and Lands. This iscommunity benefits.
This is a separate policy. We have the planning policy that sits alongside it.
The Minister for Planning and Lands is going through all the requirements that
he needs to implement that. This is a community benefits policy that sits
alongside that policy.The Speaker:Thank you, minister. Before I give the
member for Thornlie the call, member for Geraldton, that supplementary question
did have a lot of preamble to it. It was rather lengthy and may not have been
directed to the right minister. In the future, just keep it a bit shorter,
please.
Renewable energy projects
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