Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have a supplementary question. I did ask about the global warming potential of the increased level of methane and the methane impacts. In spite of accepting the science on that, why has the government decided not to require methane emitters like coal seam gas to pay the additional liability from 21 up to 25 until 2017? Now that they have done that, what is the financial value of this new fossil fuel subsidy to the coal seam gas industry?