Australian Broadcasting Corporation   LOCATION:
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1695540.htm  Broadcast:
24/07/2006  States begin setting own greenhouse targets
Reporter: Kerry Brewster  KERRY O'BRIEN: As the Prime Minister
continues to entertain the possibility of nuclear power as part
of Australia's response to the looming greenhouse threat. The
states are starting to set their own challenges. Victoria plans,
within a decade, to generate 10 per cent of its power from
renewable sources such as wind turbines. And a month ago, the
South Australian Government announced, or introduced legislation
which requires 20 per cent of the State's electricity to be
generated by renewable energy within eight years. The Federal
Government, meanwhile, has decided against raising the national
renewable energy target, and one federal minister has publicly
derided wind farms as "expensive white elephants". But other
countries foresee a vital role for wind power, and the local
wind power industry claims the lack of supp