Footnotes

Chapter 1 - The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Bill inquiry

[1]        Council of Australian Governments web site, Meeting 13 April 2007, http://www.coag.gov.au/meetings/130407/index.htm#skills, accessed 6 September 2007.

[2]        Explanatory Memorandum, National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Bill 2007, p. 5.

[3]        Explanatory Memorandum, p. 5.

[4]        Explanatory Memorandum, p. 10.

[5]        Explanatory Memorandum, p. 10.

[6]        Explanatory Memorandum, p. 11.

[7]        This is a mandatory programme for benchmark participants (eg electricity retailers) but voluntary for abatement certificate providers, including most electricity generators. NSW generators are required to report emissions annually.

[8]        Mandatory for companies seeking more than $3 million in fuel credits. Otherwise voluntary.

[9]        Mandatory for companies using more than 10 GWH/yr at a site.

[10]      Mandatory for companies greater than 0.5PJ of energy/yr.

[11]      Energy White Paper web site, http://www.energywhitepaper.gov.au/, accessed 6 September 2007.

[12]      Australian Government web site, Securing Australia's Energy Future, http://www.pmc.gov.au/publications/energy_future/docs/energy_overview.pdf, accessed 27 August 2007, p. 3.

[13]      Energy White Paper, Overview, http://www.energywhitepaper.gov.au/, accessed 27 August 2007, p. 141.

[14]      Australian Greenhouse Office web site, Progress Reporting, http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/challenge/members/progressreporting.html, accessed 6 September 2007.

[15]      Energy White Paper web site, http://www.energywhitepaper.gov.au/, accessed 6 September 2007, p. 139.

[16]      Council of Australian Governments' Action Plan for Collaborative Action on Climate Change, Attachment C, http://www.coag.gov.au/meetings/100206/attachment_c_climate_change.rtf, accessed 21 August 2007, p. 7.

[17]      A Streamlined National Reporting Framework for Greenhouse and Energy Data: Reducing the Burden, http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/reporting/pubs/reporting.pdf, accessed 28 August 2007, cover pages.

[18]      A Streamlined National Reporting Framework for Greenhouse and Energy Data: Reducing the Burden http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/reporting/pubs/reporting.pdf, accessed 28 August 2007, p. 2.

[19]      Draft Regulation Impact Statement, http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/reporting/pubs/ris.pdf, accessed 28 August 2007, p. 4.

[20]      A National System for Streamlined Greenhouse and Energy Reporting by Business, Draft Regulation Impact Statement, http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/reporting/pubs/ris.pdf, accessed 28 August 2007, p. 48.

[21]      Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading, Report of theTask Group on Emissions Trading, http://dpl/Books/2007/ReportTaskGroupEmissionsTrading.pdf, accessed 28 August 2007, p. 1.

[22]      Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading, Report of the Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading, http://dpl/Books/2007/ReportTaskGroupEmissionsTrading.pdf, accessed 21 August 2007, p. 141.

[23]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 10–12.

[24]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 180.

[25]      National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Bill 2007, Second Reading Speech, p. 4. See also Explanatory Memorandum, pp 156–67, 169.

[26]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 14.

[27]      Second Reading Speech, p. 3.

[28]      Explanatory Memorandum p. 22.

[29]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 23–24.

[30]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 24.

[31]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 24.

[32]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 181.

[33]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 183.

[34]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 27.

[35]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 30.

[36]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 30.

[37]      Second Reading Speech, p. 5.

[38]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 41,129.

[39]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 14.

[40]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 5.

Chapter 2 - Issues raised in the inquiry

[1]        AIGN, Submission 7, p. 2.

[2]        ANEDO, Submission 22, p. 1.

[3]        Victorian Government, Submission 11, p. 1.

[4]        Second Reading Speech, p. 1.

[5]        Explanatory Memorandum, p. 184.

[6]        South Australian Government, Submission 10, p. 4.

[7]        South Australian Government, Submission 10, p. 4.

[8]        Government of Western Australia, Submission 21, p. 4.

[9]        State Government of Victoria, Submission 11, p. 2.

[10]      Queensland Government, Submission 30, p. 1.

[11]      Tasmanian Government, Submission 29, p. 3.

[12]      Government of NSW, Submission 19, p. 1.

[13]      Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia, Submission 25, p. 2.

[14]      Hydro Tasmania, Submission 8, pp 1–2; Western Australian Sustainable Energy Association, Submission 18, p. 1.

[15]      Professor George Williams, Submission 2. Section 109 of the Constitution states 'when a law of a State is inconsistent with a law of the Commonwealth, the latter shall prevail, and the former shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be invalid'.

[16]      WWF-Australia, Submission 27, p. 1.

[17]      Professor George Williams, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, pp 23, 25.

[18]      Mr Jamie Bayly-Stark, Tasmanian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 40.

[19]      Professor George Williams, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 26.

[20]      Professor George Williams, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 25.

[21]      Mr Jamie Bayly-Stark, Tasmanian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 30; South Australian Government, Submission 10, p. 7;  Mr Higham, Western Australian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, pp 28, 41.

[22]      The Nature Conservation Council of NSW, Submission 20, p. 1.

[23]      ANEDO, Submission 22, pp 1–2; ACF, Greenpeace Australia Pacific and the Total Environment Centre, Submission 31, p. 1.

[24]      Mr Jamie Bayly-Stark, Tasmanian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 32; Mr Andrew Higham, Western Australian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 32.

[25]      Mr Tim O'Loughlin, South Australian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 31.

[26]      Council of Australian Governments, Council of Australian Governments' Plan for Collaborative Action on Climate Change, 10 February 2006, p. 7.

[27]      WMAA, Submission 26, p. 2.

[28]      See for example Australasian Slag Association, Submission 1, p. 1; Shell Company of Australia, Submission 5, p. 1; Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, Submission 7, p. 2.

[29]      Mr Tim O'Loughlin, South Australian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 36; Mr Jamie Bayly-Stark, Tasmanian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, pp 36–37.

[30]      Tony Blackshield and George Williams, Australian Constitutional Law and Theory (4^th edition), Federation Press, 2006, p. 1139.

[31]      Tony Blackshield and George Williams, Australian Constitutional Law and Theory (4^th edition), Federation Press, 2006, p. 375.

[32]      Melbourne Corporation v Commonwealth (1947) 74 CLR 31; [1947] HCA 26.

[33]      Queensland Electricity Commission v Commonwealth (1985) 159 CLR 192.

[34]      Austin v Commonwealth (2003) 215 CLR 185.

[35]      Professor George Williams, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 23.

[36]      Mr Tim O'Loughlin, South Australian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 31.

[37]      Mr Mick Bourke, Environment Protection Authority Victoria, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 29.

[38]      Anne Twomey, 'Federal Limitations on the Legislative Power of the States and the Commonwealth to Bind One Another', Federal Law Review, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2003, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/FedLRev/2003/13.html, accessed 4 September 2007.

[39]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 179.

[40]      See for example Mr Jamie Bayly-Stark, Tasmanian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 30; Mr Tim O'Loughlin, South Australian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 38; Mr Mick Bourke, Environment Protection Authority Victoria, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 42.

[41]      WMAA, Submission 26, p. 2.

[42]      Mr Andrew Higham, Western Australian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 28.

[43]      Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 49.

[44]      APPEA, Submission 17, p. 5.

[45]      Australian Industry Group, Submission 23, p. 2.

[46]      ACF, Submission 31, p. 3. See also Moreland Energy Foundation, Submission 32, p. 1.

[47]      Nature Conservation Council of NSW, Submission 20, pp 1–2.

[48]      Mr Tim O'Loughlin, South Australian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 31.

[49]      Mr Mick Bourke, Environment Protection Authority Victoria, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 40.

[50]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 23.

[51]      IGCC, Submission 9, p. 2.

[52]      ACF, Submission 31, p. 3.

[53]      Mr Damian Dwyer, AIGN, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 2.

[54]      Mr Damian Dwyer, AIGN, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 3.

[55]      See, for example, Explanatory Memorandum, pp 22–23, 184.

[56]      Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 53.

[57]      National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Bill 2007, clauses 13, 24 and 28.

[58]      ACF, Submission 31, p. 2.

[59]      ACF, Submission 31, p. 2; BCSC, Submission 15, p. 5; Nature Conservation Council of NSW, Submission 20, p. 2; EBA, Submission 16, p. 1.

[60]      ANEDO, Submission 22, p. 2.

[61]      Mr Peter Brisbane, DEW, Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 49.

[62]      BCSC, Submission 15, p. 5; ACF, Submission 31, p. 2; Nature Conservation Council of NSW, Submission 20, p. 2.

[63]      BCSC, Submission 15, p. 5. See also ANEDO, Submission 22, p. 4.

[64]      AIGN, Submission 7, p. 2; AIP, Submission 6, p. 3; APPEA, Submission 17, p. 4.

[65]      Mr Peter Brisbane, DEW, Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 49.

[66]      IGCC, Submission 9, p. 3.

[67]      Mr Peter Brisbane, DEW, Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 57.

[68]      ANEDO, Submission 22, pp 1–2; Mr Mick Bourke, Environment Protection Authority Victoria, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, pp 32–33, Mr Tim O'Loughlin, South Australian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 33; WA Government, Submission 21, pp 8-10.

[69]      ANEDO, Submission 22, p. 2.

[70]      Mr Peter Brisbane, DEW, Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 57.

[71]      Mr Ross Carter, DEW, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 58.

[72]      National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Bill 2007, clause 27.

[73]      National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Bill 2007, clause 19.

[74]      South Australian Government, Submission 10, p. 7; Victorian Government, Submission 11, p. 4; New South Wales Government, Submission 19, p. 2; Western Australian Government, Submission 21, p. 12; Tasmanian Government, Submission 29, p. 2; Queensland Government, Submission 30, p. 2.

[75]      South Australian Government, Submission 10, p. 7.

[76]      Mr Tim O'Loughlin, South Australian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, pp 31, 36; Mr Mick Bourke, Environment Protection Authority Victoria, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, pp 29, 37; Mr Andrew Higham, WA Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007 p. 28.

[77]      Mr Mick Bourke, Environment Protection Authority Victoria, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 29.

[78]      Mr Tim O'Loughlin, South Australian Government, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 41.

[79]      ACF, Greenpeace Australia Pacific and the Total Environment Centre, Submission 31, p. 1.

[80]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 28.

[81]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 42–43.

[82]      Victorian Government, Submission 11, p. 5.

[83]      South Australian Government, Submission 10, p. 7.

[84]      Mr Ross Carter; Mr Peter Brisbane, DEW, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 44.

[85]      National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Bill 2007, clause 73(1).

[86]      Tasmanian Government, Submission 29, pp 2–3.

[87]      Mr Mick Bourke, Environment Protection Authority Victoria, Proof Committee Hansard, 3 September 2007, p. 29.

[88]      Tasmanian Government, Submission 29, p. 3.

[89]      ANEDO, Submission 22, p. 5.

[90]      CPA Australia, Submission 24, p. 2.

[91]      CPA Australia, Submission 24, p. 2.

[92]      NSW Electricity Supply Act 1995 s. 97HB; Electricity Supply (General) Regulation 2001, reg. 73M.

[93]      Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/consol_act/emapca1994484/s30.html, accessed 30 August 2007.