❓ Hon Dee Margetts questions the Minister for Energy on the compatibility of public power procurement favoring coal-fired plants with greenhouse emission reduction strategies and the consideration of renewable energy. She also inquires about postponing the Pinjar-Cataby transmission line project pending the electricity reform task force outcomes. The Minister deferred answering.
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ELECTRICITY REFORM TASK FORCE, PUBLIC POWER PROCUREMENT
After the background paper of the electricity reform task force was released on November 2001, the Minister for Energy announced that although there would be no restrictions on the fuel type in the public power procurement process, the successful tender must offer the best commercial option to Western Power. Reference was made in the paper to making available the option for a combined 360-megawatt generation plant to be commercially operational prior to the summer of 2005-06 to ensure that an opportunity is available for a coal-fired plant. (1) Will the minister advise how this announcement is compatible with the announcement that the cabinet standing committee on environmental policy is expected to develop a strategy to reduce greenhouse emissions by early 2002; and how it is compatible with the terms of reference of the electricity reform task force whereby due consideration is meant to be given to the role that sustainable and renewable energy is to have to provide good opportunity for gross greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced? (2) Will the minister advise whether the Pinjar-Cataby transmission line project will be postponed until the outcomes of the electricity reform task force are known? Hon TOM STEPHENS
After the background paper of the electricity reform task force was released on November 2001, the Minister for Energy announced that although there would be no restrictions on the fuel type in the public power procurement process, the successful tender must offer the best commercial option to Western Power. Reference was made in the paper to making available the option for a combined 360-megawatt generation plant to be commercially operational prior to the summer of 2005-06 to ensure that an opportunity is available for a coal-fired plant. (1) Will the minister advise how this announcement is compatible with the announcement that the cabinet standing committee on environmental policy is expected to develop a strategy to reduce greenhouse emissions by early 2002; and how it is compatible with the terms of reference of the electricity reform task force whereby due consideration is meant to be given to the role that sustainable and renewable energy is to have to provide good opportunity for gross greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced? (2) Will the minister advise whether the Pinjar-Cataby transmission line project will be postponed until the outcomes of the electricity reform task force are known? Hon TOM STEPHENS
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I thank the member for some notice of this rather succinct question and I ask that the question be placed on notice.
(1) Will the minister advise how this announcement is compatible with the announcement that the cabinet standing committee on environmental policy is expected to develop a strategy to reduce greenhouse emissions by early 2002; and how it is compatible with the terms of reference of the electricity reform task force whereby due consideration is meant to be given to the role that sustainable and renewable energy is to have to provide good opportunity for gross greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced? (2) Will the minister advise whether the Pinjar-Cataby transmission line project will be postponed until the outcomes of the electricity reform task force are known? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this rather succinct question and I ask that the question be placed on notice.
(2) Will the minister advise whether the Pinjar-Cataby transmission line project will be postponed until the outcomes of the electricity reform task force are known? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this rather succinct question and I ask that the question be placed on notice.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this rather succinct question and I ask that the question be placed on notice.
I thank the member for some notice of this rather succinct question and I ask that the question be placed on notice.
(1) Will the minister advise how this announcement is compatible with the announcement that the cabinet standing committee on environmental policy is expected to develop a strategy to reduce greenhouse emissions by early 2002; and how it is compatible with the terms of reference of the electricity reform task force whereby due consideration is meant to be given to the role that sustainable and renewable energy is to have to provide good opportunity for gross greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced? (2) Will the minister advise whether the Pinjar-Cataby transmission line project will be postponed until the outcomes of the electricity reform task force are known? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this rather succinct question and I ask that the question be placed on notice.
(2) Will the minister advise whether the Pinjar-Cataby transmission line project will be postponed until the outcomes of the electricity reform task force are known? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this rather succinct question and I ask that the question be placed on notice.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this rather succinct question and I ask that the question be placed on notice.
I thank the member for some notice of this rather succinct question and I ask that the question be placed on notice.
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