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of the ACT, the Canberra Blade Centre, Ollie On Skateboards, JS Roller Rink, Skates Alive, the NRMA, the Insurance Council of Australia, Pedal Power, and the Cyclists' Rights Action Group. That list of organisations and individuals is not intended to be exhaustive, but I think it is indicative of the level of consultation that we believe is now necessary to arrive at a final policy on a small-wheeled transport strategy for the ACT.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
CONSERVATION, HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Reports on Renewable Energy and the Solar '93 Conference -
Government Response
MR LAMONT (Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Housing and Community Services, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (3.21): For the information of members, I present the Government's response to the reports of the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment on renewable energy and the Solar '93 Conference and move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Madam Speaker, on behalf of the Government, I would like to thank the current and previous members of the standing committee and the committee secretariat for the work they have undertaken on the subject of renewable energy. The standing committee's work has included the production in 1991 of a discussion paper titled "Solar Energy and Solar Cogeneration of Electricity"; the 1992 report "Renewable Energy - the Case for Energy Efficiency in the ACT"; and, more recently, a supplementary report submitted to the Assembly in February 1994 on the Solar '93 conference of the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society.
Many of the advances in renewable energy development have been addressed by the standing committee in their February 1994 report on the Solar '93 conference. This supplementary report made no recommendations to the Government. However, its comments on the state of renewable energy have been taken into account in the preparation of the Government's response. In its 1992 report on renewable energy, the committee took as its terms of reference the potential for alternative forms of energy and the renewable energy issues in relation to the supply, demand and conservation of energy. The examination of energy issues included the consideration of greenhouse factors and their effects on energy choice and usage behaviour. The report has included greenhouse factors in its recommendations. The renewable energy report made considerable recommendations on energy and greenhouse issues which were appropriate at the time. Since the report was tabled there has been dynamic change in the global community's approach to ecologically sustainable development. There has also been significant change in Commonwealth and State relations. The national scene has been characterised by structural changes in approaches to environmental improvement and reform in the supply of energy.
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