Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

I think you may have construed me to mean something that I meant not to say. But I think if you look at (e) and (f) you will see they go to the variation of a matter specified in a greenhouse gas injection licence. I think all of them could be viewed as being environmental matters. We are dealing with the environment, and any of those licensed dealings dealing with the sequestration of greenhouse gases can be seen as being matters dealing with the environment. I will come back to the earlier point I made. EPBC is triggered by this legislation. I am advised it is not formally so, but EPBC would be triggered, and that is the more appropriate place where issues of environment will be assessed. Your point about whether or not EPBC is good legislation can be debated another day, but that is the way the environment will be protected, through this legislation.