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PIPER ALDERMAN – QLD ENERGY CLASS ACTION

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PIPER ALDERMAN – QLD ENERGY CLASS ACTION

The QLD Energy Class Action is a legal claim being brought against Stanwell Corporation Limited and CS Energy Limited on behalf of all business and residential electricity consumers in Queensland.

You are eligible to join the class action if you have paid for electricity in Queensland between the 2014 and 2019 period. For further information please refer to the attached documents.

Please be advised KCGO has simply made information available for members consideration should they be interested in participating and is in no way encouraging/endorsing members to participate or otherwise.

Les Elphinstone
Manager KCGO

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Minister issues delegation to QLD Competition Authority

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MINISTER ISSUES DELEGATION TO QLD COMPETITION AUTHORITY TO DEVELOP EIGHT NEW RETAIL ELECTRICITY TARIFFS

I refer to our previous web page posts on 16th and 28th July 2020 wherein it was advised that on 24th June 2020 Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy issued a delegation to QCA to set three new electricity (controlled load) retail tariffs to be added to the 2020-21 schedule of regulated retail electricity tariffs for regional Qld. On 3rd August Minister issued a further delegation to QCA for a further 8 retail tariffs to be developed based on new network tariffs, four of which relate to small business.

These 8 additional new tariffs are to apply from 1st January 2021 whilst the three controlled load retail tariffs mentioned previously come into effect on 1st November 2020. Details of all 11 tariffs will be released by 31st August 2020 in QCA’s draft determination with a following period, to be advised, for lodgement of submissions by interested parties.

Additional details are available in the “Stakeholder Notice” issued by QCA.

Les Elphinstone
Manager KCGO

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Sugarcane Field Trial Compendium released – show casing results from 20 long term trials in Queensland.

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Industry Release
3 August 2020
Sugarcane Field Trial Compendium released – show casing results from 20 long term trials in Queensland.

A collection of research reports from trials conducted by the Coastal Farming Systems team at the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) has just been released – the Sugarcane Field Trial Compendium.

The Compendium details the results of twenty trials, carried out over a number of years. These trials have taken place from Bundaberg to the Wet Tropics, on a range of soil types using a wide range of sugarcane varieties.

“Research is vital and underpins the critical extension and communication work we deliver to the producer and agronomist community,” said Mark Hickman Director Sustainable Farming Systems, DAF.

“The Compendium provides information on our trial reports and is structured to provide the information in an easily digestible format that gives background, trial methodology and a summary of the results as well as a section on the implications of these results for the producer.”

Coastal Farming Systems team leader Neil Halpin said that the compendium captures a large body of work carried out by the Coastal Farming Systems team in an effort to assist sugarcane growers adopt more sustainable practices.

“Eleven of our trials clearly demonstrate that nitrogen application rates based on the Six-Easy-Steps (6ES) to nutrient management guidelines produced the same cane yield as more traditional application rates. The reduction in nitrogen had the advantage of reduced input costs thereby improving grower profitability. Better matching nitrogen application to crop demand also has the potential to reduce losses to the environment, thereby improving water quality.

“The field trial activity also evaluated a range of enhanced efficiency fertilisers, like polymer coated and nitrification inhibitor products. The trials also highlighted that 6ES guidelines for fertiliser application after soybean and mill mud applications offer significant fertiliser and cost savings. read more

SENATE RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT REFERENCES COMMITTEE ENQUIRY

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SENATE RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT REFERENCES COMMITTEE ENQUIRY

Representatives from BDCG were given the opportunity to address the senate committee for enquiry into “Identification of leading practices in ensuring evidence based regulation of farm practices that impact water quality outcomes in the Great Barrier Reef” in Brisbane on Monday of this week in support of submission that was lodged in November 2019.

BDCG highlighted a number of issues:

• that members take their environmental stewardship responsibilities very seriously including the health of the GBR
• growers consider themselves to be the caretakers of the land
• due to high input costs, reducing margins, lower prices etc. farmers can ill afford to unnecessarily apply fertiliser and chemicals beyond crop requirements
• financial cost to agriculture to meet state government introduced regulations
• integrity and reliability of the reef science on which legislation and funding decisions are made on
• damming findings from recent CCC review of 3 Qld universities looking at “reducing the risk of research fraud”
• group of international scientists unable to obtain consistent results from repeated experiments of 8 JCU studies confirming that a “replication crisis” exists
• organisation members being fully supportive of an independent authority as suggested by Dr Ridd to “check the science” on which government policy and funding decisions are made and
• calling upon the Federal Government to set aside a nominal amount of funding for this purpose.

Les Elphinstone
Manager KCGO