Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, upon notice, on 12 April 2011:

With reference to prescribed burns carried out in the Northern Territory and Queensland:

(1) Does the department keep records of the square kilometres burnt by prescribed burns in the Northern Territory and Queensland:

(a) if so, can copies of these figures be provided, for every years for which data exists; and

(b) if not, why not.

(2) Does the department keep records of the square kilometres burnt by unmanaged bush fires in the Northern Territory and Queensland:

(a) if so, can copies of these figures be provided, for every year for which data exists; and

(b) if not, why not.

(3) Does the department have a figure pertaining to the carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) that is released, per year since 1990, as a result of prescribed burns:

(a) if so, can copies of these figures be provided; and

(b) if not, why not and why are these figures not acquired or kept to enable CO2e levels to be attributed to the Northern Territory and Queensland.

(4) Does the department have a figure pertaining to the CO2e that is released, per year since 1990, as a result of unmanaged bush fires in the Northern Territory and Queensland:

(a) if so, can copies of these figures be provided; and

(b) if not, why not and why are these figures not acquired or kept to enable CO2e levels to be attributed to the Northern Territory and Queensland.