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
5:07 pm
Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source
We are expecting that LNG projects will qualify for 60 per cent assistance of the industry average emissions intensity under the standard assistance policy. As I discussed with Mr Macfarlane, your negotiator, there is a policy issue with LNG, which is the wide dispersion in emissions intensities. In other words, some fields are much gassier than others. That is the policy issue here. It is not, for example, like a particular industrial process where you are going to get variations in the emissions intensity of the activity but it will not be an enormously wide variation. There is that issue with LNG, so the agreement that the government made with the opposition through Mr Macfarlane—who I think is a former energy and resources minister, so I do not think you—
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