Page 133 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 14 February 1990
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Planning Procedure
MR MOORE: My question is directed to the Chief Minister. I refer to an article in this morning's paper, "Planners question Alliance policies". Could he explain how the Alliance Government will restore and then maintain the balanced distribution of development within Canberra, with particular reference to allowing the exchange of existing leases for those that will facilitate ad hoc redevelopment?
MR KAINE: The draft legislation that will determine the way in which planning is conducted under the Territory Planning Authority when it becomes a permanent authority, which will be soon, and the processes that will be open to people in the community to appeal against what is done - that whole range of qualifications and regulations about how planning will proceed - will be placed on the table in the Assembly, as this Government undertook to do, within the next week. That will then be open for at least a month of public discussion and public consultation to ensure that the interests of the public are reflected. It will be open for debate in this house so that members who have a particular point of view can express it. Out of that process will come legislation that will be decided by the community in this Assembly as to how the objectives that Mr Moore has set out will be achieved.
Recycled Oil
MR STEFANIAK: My question is addressed to the Minister for Finance and Urban Services. What is the Government's attitude to the recent commencement of sales of recycled oil in the ACT by the Pearson Oil Company?
MR DUBY: I thank Mr Stefaniak for the question. This Government has a firm commitment to recycling, and the Government is aware of this development in the ACT of the Pearson Oil Company which is selling recycled oil. We strongly support recycling and are pleased to see the first evidence of the commercial viability of oil recycling in the ACT.
The ACT Administration currently has a contract with Independent Oil Refineries, a division of Trifolium Limited, under which that company pays for the rights to recycle waste oil collected in the ACT as part of our campaign of recycling.
Trifolium is about to test the market with the release of a four-litre container of recycled oil, and now Pearsons, a local company supplied by Trifolium and managed by a local gentleman by the name of Tim Pearson whom I had the pleasure to meet last weekend at Wheels Rally 90, has entered the market with a range of recycled oil products. The Government applauds this development and wishes the company well.
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