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
4:09 pm
Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source
Senator Xenophon is asking about the National Waste Policy. I am advised it would be premature to conclude that all major landfill sites would be excluded from offsets. We envisage the issue of additionality would be investigated by the committee on a case-by-case basis consistent with the tests I have outlined. I am also advised that the National Waste Policy adopted by the EPHC, the Environment Protection and Heritage Council, states that the Australian government in collaboration with state and territory governments will develop a strategy for measures to address emissions from disposal of waste in landfills and other waste activities, and these support the operation of a future CPRS. I am advised that environment ministers have not yet determined the detail of these measures and that these details are in part dependent on the final design of the CPRS.
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