❓ Minister Logan responds to a question regarding the Auditor General's report on renewable energy and GreenPower, highlighting positive findings and addressing criticisms from the opposition. The response also includes unrelated personal remarks and interjections.
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RENEWABLE ENERGY AND GREENPOWER - AUDITOR GENERAL REPORT
Can the minister please comment on the findings of today’s report by the Auditor General on the issue of renewable energy and GreenPower? Mr F.M. LOGAN
Can the minister please comment on the findings of today’s report by the Auditor General on the issue of renewable energy and GreenPower? Mr F.M. LOGAN
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I thank the member for her question. Before I answer the question, I acknowledge the presence in the Speaker’s gallery of the acclaimed Australian actor Mr John Wood, who is a cousin of the member for Albany and who appeared in Blue Heelers , not Blue Hills ! [Applause.] Mr F.M. LOGAN : In answer to the question asked by the member for Kingsley, we welcome the Auditor General’s report. What did the Auditor General find? He found that the public can have confidence - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for her question. Before I answer the question, I acknowledge the presence in the Speaker’s gallery of the acclaimed Australian actor Mr John Wood, who is a cousin of the member for Albany and who appeared in Blue Heelers , not Blue Hills ! [Applause.] Mr F.M. LOGAN : In answer to the question asked by the member for Kingsley, we welcome the Auditor General’s report. What did the Auditor General find? He found that the public can have confidence - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
I thank the member for her question. Before I answer the question, I acknowledge the presence in the Speaker’s gallery of the acclaimed Australian actor Mr John Wood, who is a cousin of the member for Albany and who appeared in Blue Heelers , not Blue Hills ! [Applause.] Mr F.M. LOGAN : In answer to the question asked by the member for Kingsley, we welcome the Auditor General’s report. What did the Auditor General find? He found that the public can have confidence - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
[Applause.] Mr F.M. LOGAN : In answer to the question asked by the member for Kingsley, we welcome the Auditor General’s report. What did the Auditor General find? He found that the public can have confidence - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : In answer to the question asked by the member for Kingsley, we welcome the Auditor General’s report. What did the Auditor General find? He found that the public can have confidence - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: I thank the member for her question. Before I answer the question, I acknowledge the presence in the Speaker’s gallery of the acclaimed Australian actor Mr John Wood, who is a cousin of the member for Albany and who appeared in Blue Heelers , not Blue Hills ! [Applause.] Mr F.M. LOGAN : In answer to the question asked by the member for Kingsley, we welcome the Auditor General’s report. What did the Auditor General find? He found that the public can have confidence - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
I thank the member for her question. Before I answer the question, I acknowledge the presence in the Speaker’s gallery of the acclaimed Australian actor Mr John Wood, who is a cousin of the member for Albany and who appeared in Blue Heelers , not Blue Hills ! [Applause.] Mr F.M. LOGAN : In answer to the question asked by the member for Kingsley, we welcome the Auditor General’s report. What did the Auditor General find? He found that the public can have confidence - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
[Applause.] Mr F.M. LOGAN : In answer to the question asked by the member for Kingsley, we welcome the Auditor General’s report. What did the Auditor General find? He found that the public can have confidence - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : In answer to the question asked by the member for Kingsley, we welcome the Auditor General’s report. What did the Auditor General find? He found that the public can have confidence - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I am; there are no problems about that. It summarises what the Auditor General found. The public can be confident that certified renewable energy is energy that has been issued with renewable energy certificates through the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and GreenPower programs, and that it comes from renewable sources. The report also found that the government, as I have said in the house on numerous occasions, is on schedule to meet its six per cent renewable energy target by 2010. It found that renewable energy usage has increased from one per cent in 2001 to five per cent in 2007. The report found that the Western Australian government is on schedule to meet its stated target of 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020. It also found that Western Australian generators are likely to be able to produce enough green power in 2010 to meet the government’s intended purchase of 20 per cent of its requirement for renewable energy sources. This was another policy position put forward by the government and debated in this house on numerous occasions. The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
The report found that large companies may use individual contracts to buy electricity equivalent to the output of a particular generator; as an example of that, the report referred to the Kwinana desalination plant which, it acknowledged, is buying electricity from Synergy equivalent to 69 per cent of the output of Emu Downs Wind Farm. Members will remember that the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Capel went to extreme lengths to try to prove that the Premier was not telling the truth about the desalination plant using renewable energy power from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. They went to extraordinary lengths to claim that the desalination plant used more energy than was being produced at Emu Downs. They went to extraordinary lengths to criticise the Premier. Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr P.D. Omodei : Can you do me a favour and go and check that? I think you’re wrong. Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : This is the report of the Auditor General, my friend. While I am taking the interjection from the member for Warren-Blackwood, I will make a response to his statements about knocking down anyone coming into his office to tap him on the shoulder. On Friday, when the member for Vasse comes into the Leader of the Opposition’s office to tap him on the shoulder, he should remember that the member for Vasse is a lot bigger than he is, so I suggest he give the member for Vasse a kick in the nuts before he hits him in the head! Withdrawal of Remark Mr C.J. BARNETT : Mr Speaker, that is highly inappropriate. The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
The SPEAKER : That is inappropriate language and I direct the member to withdraw the remark. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker. Debate Resumed Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, I point out - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the first time and the member for Cottesloe to order for the second time. Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : Finally, in taking the interjection from the member for Darling Range, the Auditor General’s report revealed the low take-up rate of GreenPower in Western Australia. In fact, the report found that only one in every 164 Western Australian households was buying GreenPower as at 30 June 2007, compared with one in six or one in 17 in other states. He also highlighted the reason for this as being the ability to market, which is exactly the point that I have made over and over in this house when the government has been criticised by the member for Darling Range about misleading the public on electricity prices. I indicated to the house that Synergy was increasing NaturalPower and SmartPower tariffs because we needed to increase the income from GreenPower in order to market it further. Through further marketing, the government has achieved the success it expected. The take-up rate for Easy Green is going extremely well, while the take-up rate for the Natural Power option - for which the government was criticised by the opposition after increasing its tariffs - has gone through the roof. The government is doing a great job, and the Auditor General’s report reveals that all of the opposition’s criticisms with regard to renewable energy are false.
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