Letter to Ministry of Climate Change

Ministry for Climate Change
info@coomatechcentre.com.au
1800057590

Dr Samuel Maloney
samuel.maloney@gmail.com
0413496725

To whom it may concern

Re: Video link to Alice Springs

As a follow-up to the session, an I hope I haven't sent this already.

1) What measures are being used to provide price surety for Australian CO2 sequestration/reduction processes under the CPRS? Will the government consider a floor price for carbon permits?

3) Will the government consider a floor price on petrol to give the manufactures of fuel efficient transport certainty in the Australian market place?

2) What other legislative measures are being provided to enhance Australia's resilience to a carbon price? Has the government considered for example:
a) Mandatory efficiency standards (eg transport, buildings, industrial and home appliances)?
b) a "Smart Grid" (to facilitate a better electricity market, allowing renewable and distributed energy to compete)?
c) Changing the regulatory frame work to reward electricity producers to for reducing demand?
d) Expanding MRET?
e) Expanding public transport?
etc?

3) What does the ministry think about Denmark's experience from a carbon tax? Will the government consider putting the money raised from the CPRS into power infrastructure (a smart grid DC high voltage lines, etc) efficiency, and innovation? Would that create a situation where while fuel and electricity prices go up, high cost usage goes down, and creates jobs are created? Would this decrease the impact on vulnerable individuals more than tax cuts?

Thank you for taking the time to look at these questions.

Yours


Dr Sam Maloney.