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OAKESHOTT INDEPENDENT

EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME INQUIRY

 

"Emissions trading schemes are important emerging policy instruments to manage greenhouse gas reduction, and the Mid-North Coast is a potential engine room for such schemes to operate, Independent MP for Port Macquarie, Robert Oakeshott said today.

"Areas that are resource rich can and should lead the debate in regard to emissions trading, and the Mid-North Coast is one such area. In light of this, I have agreed to be a member of the Committee on Natural Resource Management in NSW, and certainly welcome the current inquiry into the emerging trading schemes, said Mr Oakeshott.

"Public submissions are now being called for, and it would be great to get a lot from the Mid-North Coast.

"The Committee is enquiring into, and reporting upon, the implications for natural resource management in New South Wales of national and international emissions trading schemes with a particular emphasis on;

a) Costs and benefits for natural resource managers of national and international greenhouse gas emission trading schemes
b) Transitional arrangements for participants in the New South Wales emission scheme to a national scheme; and
c) Economic and environmental implications for the State of offset activities

Interested parties have until the 9th May to make a submission and I am happy to assist anyone locally who would like to put one forward to the Committee, Mr Oakeshott said today.

Written submissions may be lodged with the Standing Committee on Natural Resource Management (Climate Change), Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney, 2000 or through my office at Suite6/27 Grant Street, Port Macquarie, NSW, 2444.

27 March 2008