Senate debates
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Customs) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Excise) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — General) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2]
In Committee
10:23 pm
Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source
This makes the whole thing fallacious. You are saying that we are going to count carbon emissions from that fire, but we are not going to count carbon emissions from that other fire. What someone is going to say is, ‘Well, they were both started by a lightning strike and therefore they are both natural.’ If the carbon emissions of the Victorian bushfires were greater than the total carbon emissions of Australia, this is going to cause a slight problem. What happens if I see a lightning strike that I could have put out, but I let it get away—is that a natural fire or an unnatural fire?
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