Senate debates
Monday, 30 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
4:06 pm
Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source
Can the minister elaborate on that? The nub of LMS and others’ argument is that with NGAS and GGAS ending with a CPRS start—and there is transitional assistance, I acknowledge that—they will lose that GGAS and NGAS income stream. This would undermine the viability of existing projects and would put at risk the power supply, in part, to a number of regional towns. The communities that have been put to me by LMS involve their sites in Ipswich, Redland shire, Tweed shire, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Darwin, Perth, Launceston, Bendigo, Ballarat and Shepparton. Obviously two of those are in capital cities, but it would put various communities at risk with the power that has been produced. I am happy to have further discussions with the minister and her office on this. I just want to put those concerns on record.
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