David Pocock (ACT, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Following on from Senator Hanson's question: she mentioned the safeguard mechanism, and the minister herself has mentioned a zero baseline for new projects. I'm interested in how this works with the safeguard mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions at Australia's large industrial facilities. Could companies develop new coal and gas projects and still meet their safeguard commitments by shipping the equivalent of their scope 1 and 2 emissions overseas using this legislation?