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

I can advise Senator Hanson that under the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act the Minister for the Environment and Water has the power to make orders to remedy harm to the marine environment. In addition NOPSEMA has a range of compliance and enforcement powers under the OPGGS Act, including the ability to issue directions to the registered titleholder of a greenhouse gas injection licence. That includes the direction to close off wells and remove property, to carry out operations for the monitoring of the behaviour of the greenhouse gas substance and to undertake such activities for the purpose of eliminating, mitigating and managing or remediating the risk of a greenhouse gas substance injected into a formation if there is a risk it will have significant impact on the surrounding environment.