Hansard: 18 July 2007 ASSEMBLY ENERGY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL Second reading Debate resumed from 20 June; motion of Mr BATCHELOR (Minister for Energy and Resources). Mr CLARK (Box Hill) — The Energy Legislation Amendment Bill has two main purposes. The first is to amend the Electricity Industry Act 2000 to require medium and large electricity [...]

Hansard: 6 June 2007 ASSEMBLY Electricity: supply Mr CLARK (Box Hill) — I raise with the Minister for Energy and Resources the large increases in electricity bills being experienced by many Victorian businesses and the forecast shortages in reserve capacity for this coming summer. I ask the minister to develop and make public a plan [...]

Hansard: 23 May 2007 ASSEMBLY Mr CLARK (Box Hill) — The decisions that need to be made about greenhouse gas emissions in this state, in this nation and around the world are some of the most important for the future that have ever had to be made by humanity. If the scientific predictions are accurate [...]

Hansard: 2 May 2007 ASSEMBLY Mr CLARK (Box Hill) — It is deplorable that the Bracks government is seeking to play political games with one of the most serious issues confronting humanity today, which is greenhouse gases and the threat of global warming. In some senses I have sympathy for the member for Seymour, because [...]

The Legislative Council has defeated the Bracks Government’s legislation ona nuclear power plebiscite. Liberal, Greens Party, National and DLP members all voted against the billafter the Government opposed amendments moved by the Greens to try to makethe Bill more democratic. All non-government parties in the Victorian Parliament – regardless oftheir views on nuclear energy – [...]

Hansard: 14 March 2007 ASSEMBLY NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES (PROHIBITIONS) AMENDMENT (PLEBISCITE) BILL Second reading Debate resumed from 28 February; motion of Mr BATCHELOR (Minister for Energy and Resources). Mr CLARK (Box Hill) — This bill and the plebiscite it proposes are a political stunt, a waste of time and money, and a stacked and manipulated abuse [...]

Hansard: 28 February 2007 ASSEMBLY Climate change: emission levels Mr CLARK (Box Hill) — I congratulate the National Generators Forum and CRA International on their recent publication of the document Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Policies for the Australian Electricity Sector. This study does some of the hard work necessary to assess what is required to [...]