Tuesday 13/2/2007 Page: 6
MEMBER for Monaro Steve Whan has congratulated the organisers of the Snowy Mountains' Renewable Energy and Climate Change Expo for doing a terrific job."Congratulations to Rashida and the committee who put the Expo together - it was very informative," said Mr Whan.
"The Expo helped people understand what global warming means for our region and the great thing is that there are several things they could do themselves to address the problem. "There was a good slide show based on Al Gore's film, which gives you strong food for thought and enhances the need for all governments in Australia to take action immediately," he said.
Mr Whan added the Expo and slide show reinforced what he'd already said about climate change and why he'd been pushing for a national carbon trading scheme.
"We need to do things now - if we'd been investing in research before now commercial prices for solar installations wouldn't be so high. "It's important to get to the stage where the average person when building a house can afford to install solar or more importantly, when they can't afford not to." he said.
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