Chris Ellison (WA, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Carr. Is it a fact that, under the green paper proposals for the so-called Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, companies emitting up to 1,499 tonnes of carbon dioxide per million dollars of revenue will get no compensation while companies emitting just one tonne more—1,500—will get 60 per cent compensation. Minister, won’t the government’s proposed ETS simply encourage industries to pollute more in order to get compensation?