3 June 2015, Renew Economy, Renewable Energy Target bill moves to Senate, with promise of debate over wood waste: The political debate over Australia’s renewable energy target will now move to the Senate, after legislation paring back the target from 41,000Gwh by 2020 to 33,000GWh was passed through parliament’s lower house…Federal Labor yesterday introduced an amendment to the RET bill to have the burning of native wood waste for energy excluded from the legislation, for the reason that it was neither clean nor renewable. “When in Government, Labor opposed its inclusion in the legislation and we oppose it in Opposition,” Butler said in a statement. Excluding it from the target, said, provided for large-scale solar and wind farms to be built to achieve the target of 25 per cent of Australia’s energy generation from renewable sources by 2020. Read More here
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