[LINK] National Strategy for Energy Efficiency Meeting now on in Canberra

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings from Old Parliament House in Canberra, where a meeting 
between industry and the Environment Department is taking place on 
what to put in the 
<http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/2008-10-02/index.cfm#climate>National 
Strategy for Energy Efficiency agreed last year by the Council of 
Australian Governments (COAG).

The staff of the Energy Efficiency Futures section of the Department 
of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts are under pressure 
to produce proposals for a COAG meeting in March. Unfortunately the 
Environment Department seems to be conducing consultations in a last 
century way. It seems particularly inappropriate to make people fly 
to Canberra to discuss energy savings. The Australian Government has 
stated an intention to use online consultation and make information 
more freely available and the Environment Department should implement 
this government policy.

To help the Environment Department along I have placed the agenda and 
discussion paper of the meeting on my blog, along with some comments 
from the meeting: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2009/02/national-strategy-for-energy-efficiency.html>.



Tom Worthington FACS HLM tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Australian National University