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

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, upon notice, on 4 April 2011:

With reference to the Browse Basin liquefied natural gas precinct proposed by Woodside and others for James Price Point, and the precinct's projected annual greenhouse gas emissions of 32 million tonnes per annum (equivalent to 6 per cent of Australia's current annual emissions for all sectors), should the precinct be developed to its full projected potential:

(1) What specific assurances have the proponents provided to the Government that all, or some, of the project's greenhouse gas emissions will be geosequestered, in other words, stored underground.

(2) What detailed research have the proponents provided to the Government to show that geosequestration will be feasible if the precinct is built at James Price Point.

(3) Given that one of the project partners, BHP Billiton, has expressed concerns that the seabed at Browse Basin is geologically unsuitable for geosequestration, what confidence does the Government have in Woodside's statements that geosequestration will be possible for greenhouse gas emissions from the proposed precinct.