Climate Change and Energy Legislation Amendment (Renewable Energy and Storage Targets) Bill 2023: second reading

The question put

That all the words after ‘That’ be omitted and replaced with ‘the bill be withdrawn and not reintroduced until the government: (1) guarantees secure and reliable energy for every Victorian, noting the recent system collapse which led to 530,000 people without power; (2) commits to energy being affordable, noting the 25 per cent price increase over the last year; (3) details how Victoria will have adequate baseload power, noting the state government’s ban on gas; (4) sets out a plan to upgrade 57-year-old transmission infrastructure, noting that almost one in seven of Victoria’s 13,000 electricity transmission towers is damaged and experts warned the government in 2020 of the risks in extreme weather events; (5) reveals to Victorians exactly how the new planning powers and ministerial directions will operate and why the Government is stripping communities from planning decisions; (6) explains what the impact will be on agricultural land, when analysis from the government’s offshore wind policy directions paper of March 2020 shows that to meet net zero targets, up to 70 per cent of Victoria’s land will need to host wind and solar farms; (7) provides an update on how Victoria will rea