Minister, have you or has anyone in your department been part of any conversations or investigations around the use of native forest residues for a methanol plant in Burnie?
HIF must rule out using native forest products to feed their proposed e-fuel plant. Biofuels are not renewable if they include Tasmania’s carbon bank forests.
The Tasmanian Liberals should immediately rule out burning native forests for energy generation as part of their bioenergy strategy announced today.
I have in front of me the Tasmanian Advanced Manufacturing Action Plan of 2024 and it talks about two particular areas I wanted to discuss with you.
The emissions from native forest biomass across the whole life cycle are substantial and can no longer be justified in meeting the Paris targets.
The Greens support International Day of Action on Forest Biomass Energy. There is no place for forest furnaces in clean, green lutruwita/Tasmania.
The Liberal and Labor parties have united to allow native forest biomass to be classified a future renewable energy source in lutruwita/Tasmania.
We are in this position as a country where we are playing catch-up on tackling climate change.
A renewable energy target must be part of the actions that we take in Tasmania. We support a target for renewable energy.
The Minister for Energy has made clear he wants to burn native forests for energy generation.