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senate vote 2012-03-15#3
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Title
Motions — Coal- Motions - Coal - From coal to clean energy market
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<p class="speaker">Christine Milne</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That the Senate—</p>- The majority voted against a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2012-03-15.31.2) introduced by Greens Senator [Christine Milne](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/tasmania/christine_milne), which means the motion was unsuccessful.
- ### Motion text
- > *That the Senate—*
- > *(a) notes that:*
- >> *(i) China's twelfth 5 year plan is expected to introduce caps on coal use from 2015,*
- >> *(ii) the price of coking coal has already dropped some 40 per cent in the past year, due in large part to a drop in China's demand for imported coal,*
- >> *(iii) China expects utility scale solar power to out-compete new coal-fired power stations by the end of the decade, while the Indian Government expects the cost crossover as soon as 2016,*
- >> *(iv) India's economic giant, Tata Power, has publicly stated that its new investments will favour renewable energy, as coal power is becoming 'impossible' to develop,*
- >> *(v) the Australian Bureau of Resource and Energy Economics (BREE) continues to predict that coal exports will double over the next two decades, and*
- >> *(vi) Australia is leaving itself economically exposed by focusing on the development of coal export infrastructure; and*
- > *(b) calls on the Government to:*
- >> *(i) require BREE to review its modelling based on the current geopolitics of coal, and*
- >> *(ii) rethink Australia's economic settings, which assume ongoing increases in the coal export market, and instead look to broaden Australia's economic base and build a more competitive clean energy economy.*
<p class="italic">  (a)   notes that:</p><p class="italic">     (i)   China's twelfth 5 year plan is expected to introduce caps on coal use from 2015,</p><p class="italic">     (ii)   the price of coking coal has already dropped some 40 per cent in the past year, due in large part to a drop in China's demand for imported coal,</p><p class="italic">     (iii)   China expects utility scale solar power to out-compete new coal-fired power stations by the end of the decade, while the Indian Government expects the cost crossover as soon as 2016,</p><p class="italic">     (iv)   India's economic giant, Tata Power, has publicly stated that its new investments will favour renewable energy, as coal power is becoming 'impossible' to develop,</p><p class="italic">     (v)   the Australian Bureau of Resource and Energy Economics (BREE) continues to predict that coal exports will double over the next two decades, and</p><p class="italic">     (vi)   Australia is leaving itself economically exposed by focusing on the development of coal export infrastructure; and</p><p class="italic">  (b)   calls on the Government to:</p><p class="italic">     (i)   require BREE to review its modelling based on the current geopolitics of coal, and</p><p class="italic">     (ii)   rethink Australia's economic settings, which assume ongoing increases in the coal export market, and instead look to broaden Australia's economic base and build a more competitive clean energy economy.</p> <p class="speaker">John Hogg</p><p>The question is that the motion moved by Senator Milne be agreed to.</p>
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