Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I think asking me to speculate about what companies may or may not decide to do to meet their safeguard obligations is beyond what is reasonable in the scope of a debate which is about an entirely different piece of legislation.

I've been really clear over the course of the last few days as we've debated this that this bill simply seeks to establish a framework that would enable the cross border movement of CO2. I've also stepped through the very extensive processes that would need to be concluded before any such export or import could take place, and I have emphasised that these are, in the end, whether or not projects proceed in relation to carbon capture and storage, contingent on commercial decisions combined with the ability to meet the broad range of regulatory requirements that would be in place.