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

Mr President, I have a second supplementary question. Can I ask the minister to take on notice what he clearly does not know and that is: why have you given the coal seam gas industry till 2017 to pay the additional liability? What is the value of the additional liability in dollar terms? What is the estimated volume of methane emissions from coal seam gas and is the government's failure to have an independent assessment of methane leakage a deliberate strategy to shield the industry from its actual financial liability?