Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

If you were to reduce the fertiliser use and demonstrate that it is not business as usual, but a reduction designed for carbon abatement, and it stacks up as a project then you would want to look at the offset methodology, the project and the abatement it would arguably reduce. That could fall within it. I do not want to pick winners during this process because it goes to the way the scheme is designed to operate—that is, develop the offset methodologies and if that includes a reduction in the use of fertiliser in a particular type of operation that stacks up, to use a broader term, then why not?