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Renewable energy certificates - people and climate demand a better deal
Renewable energy certificates
Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) -- The Minister for Energy and Resources is out there bleating, saying that a badly designed mandatory renewable energy target has caused the price of renewable energy certificates to plummet, but this is the same minister who shortly before Christmas brought into this Parliament a bill which got rid of the Victorian target and rolled it into the federal target. At the time he did it he knew that the Greens had already tried to amend the federal scheme to fix exactly the problems that he is now pointing to.
This minister has taken some fundamentally good ideas and turned them into disasters. He has a record of it. Smart meters -- a great idea! They are now a rort and a rip-off. The feed-in tariff was popular until he got hold of it.
The only thing that was salvaged from that whole exercise was when all the non-government parties lined up together and forced him to green up that particular measure. We have to remind ourselves that he was the guy who ran public transport for the first seven years of the Bracks government. With such an enormous challenge as climate change in front of us, we simply cannot move forward with a man like that who has a proven record of bad public policy-making in that particular portfolio.
