Page 1638 - Week 06 - Thursday, 3 May 1990
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use of that. If they do, I am sure Mr Duby will provide additional spaces for them because clearly that is in the interests of the community and the environment.
We will also have to look seriously at the need for regulations to control emissions from solid fuel burning appliances. Less obviously, but just as importantly, we can address national energy conservation objectives better by better siting of houses and the proper installation and use of energy-efficient appliances. It might interest people to know something about energy-efficient appliances. Once again I refer to the very good article in Choice magazine, which I would commend to all members of the Assembly. On page 19 of the May 1990 edition we are told that there are several brands of new-generation fluorescent lamps which are more expensive but which have a much longer life. They also reduce the amount of energy that is being used.
Mr Amory Lovins, who is considered to be one of the Western world's most influential energy thinkers and who has given presentations to environment Ministers around Australia - I was fortunate to be present at one of those meetings - has outlined the savings that can be made in commercial buildings and the costs associated with these.
On page 20 of the Choice article there is a reference to testing small freezers. It has been found that the difference in energy consumption between the most efficient and the least efficient is dramatic - 370 kilowatt hours per year for a five-star rating compared with 720 kilowatt hours per year for a one-star rating. That is the sort of concept that the Alliance Government has included in its environment policy: to have those sorts of appliances made available to the people of the ACT. These sorts of concepts are examples of how academics and businesses are responding to the need for solutions to environmental problems.
I am confident that there will be new technologies developed to further reduce energy consumption. In fact, Mr Lovins has also said that it would be probably cheaper in the long run for organisations such as ACTEW, for example, to give away free long-life globes, because that would then save the amount of electricity that it would have to provide to the people of the ACT.
Ms Follett: We will vote for that. You put it up, we will vote for it.
MR JENSEN: That is very interesting, Mr Speaker. Other major priorities which we need to implement in the ACT are water conservation and soil conservation programs - - -
Mr Berry: Does Mr Duby agree with that?
MR JENSEN: Mr Duby was present at the time those issues were raised. Such programs will ensure that the expected
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