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
4:27 pm
Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
The minister has said that this goes to the issue of certainty, after having just said that you can increase the annual caps and the gateways if there is a change to the national target and that you can flow that back through. If that is the case I do not quite understand what the minister is saying. That surely does not give you any certainty and we are saying that we do not want certainty locked in to the extent that there are windfall gains. We want reviews over a shorter period of time and we want to make sure that the ET industries do not end up with the windfall gains because of that productivity contribution.
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