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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 9 Hansard (4 September) . . Page.. 2950 ..
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Mr Whitecross just closed the debate, so you need leave.
Ms Tucker: I seek leave to make a comment on this issue.
Leave not granted.
Question put:
That the motion (Mr Whitecross's) be agreed to.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 8 NOES, 8 Mr Corbell Mrs Carnell Ms Horodny Mr Cornwell Ms McRae Mr Hird Mr Osborne Mr Humphries Ms Reilly Mr Kaine Ms Tucker Mrs Littlewood Mr Whitecross Mr Moore Mr Wood Mr StefaniakQuestion so resolved in the negative, in accordance with standing order 162.
MR WHITECROSS (4.55): Mr Speaker, I am rising to speak on Ms Tucker's matter of public importance that the ACT Government "increase action to reduce the ACT's greenhouse gas emissions". I want to touch on only a couple of things. The first is the Yallourn power deal. Much has been made about how the Yallourn power deal is just a financing transaction; it is all to do with a hedging contract by ACTEW to protect their electricity prices. A government that ought to be interested in greenhouse gas emissions ought to be concerned about the Yallourn power deal, because by making a power deal with Yallourn, rather than another company, they are effectively underwriting a power company which uses a method that generates more greenhouse gases per kilowatt hour of electricity than any other method currently used to generate power in Australia. I think that ought to be a concern to a Minister.
Perhaps the reason it is not of concern to Mr Humphries, perhaps the reason why Mr Humphries is not bothered by that, is that, as Mr Humphries just explained, he does not believe in the greenhouse gas effect anyway. It is all a hoax, a myth and a fairy story perpetrated by people who do not know anything about science and are happy to perpetrate the myth that human beings are causing the greenhouse gas effect when everybody knows that the real culprit is mother nature. If only we could get mother nature under control we would not have any greenhouse gas problems.
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