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National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act
The Government is quietly planning to remove scrutiny measures for big polluters, making it impossible for watchdogs to verify that the scheme is fair.
With only four days for public comment, it's clear the Government wants this to go unnoticed and unquestioned. Let them know we won't stand for it.
We've included some points you might like to raise on the right.
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Points to Raise:
You object to the proposal to amend s24(1)(b) of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 to remove the requirement to publicly report on energy production data.
You reject the argument made by the Government in the discussion paper that energy production data for large power stations is publicly available from NEMMCO on a monthly basis, and therefore does not need to be reported under the NGER Act. The form in which this information is made available by NEMMCO is not easily accessible, useful or understandable, so it is not an appropriate substitute.
Energy production data is important information to the community. To calculate downstream emissions as a result of the operations of a particular company (e.g. coal mine, coal to liquid facility, oil refinery) reporting of energy production at the facility and corporate level is essential. If energy produced is not reported, only the GHG emissions produced as a result of undertaking that activity are reported, so there is no way to compare the relative contribution to climate change (in terms of downstream emissions) of different facilities and companies.
The Act should go further to require not only reporting on energy produced, but on energy converted and on net energy produced both on a facility and corporate level. Business should already maintain production figures for the volume or weight of energy converted and calculating this in joules would not be a difficult task.
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