Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

There is just one point of clarification there. Thank you; I understand that process. But I'm interested in what will happen when the scenario is an extension of time of an existing facility which would emit scope 1 emissions below the threshold, despite applying to a project that is cumulatively above the threshold and ergo is covered by the safeguard mechanism. I don't know how the EPBC Act would treat that, because it's not an expansion in scope; it's an extension of time with a reduced production output. So I'm interested in how those extensions would be treated by the hard cap and by the pollution trigger in the safeguard mechanism.