GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
696. Dr D.J. HONEY to the Minister for Climate Action:
I have a supplementary question. As
the Western Australian Minister for Climate Action, what is the minister's
plan to address Western Australia's 12.9 per cent increase in emissions
under WA Labor, which is the sole reason Australia's emissions did not
reduce during the reporting period?
Several members interjected.
Dr D.J. HONEY: It is true.
It is a fact!
The SPEAKER: Order, please!
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER: Minister for
Health, again! I am just waiting to give the minister the call.
Mr P. Papalia interjected.
The SPEAKER: We will wait for you too, will we,
Minister for Police? The Minister for Climate Action.
Ms A.
SANDERSON replied:
Madam Speaker, thank you. I want to
point out—I am sure the member is blissfully ignorant—that the
emissions that he is stating also includes emissions from projects that are in
commonwealth waters, and they do not manage or even measure their emissions on
those projects. Those National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental
Management Authority approvals do not require management on those approvals.
The premise of the member's question is entirely misleading.
We want federal government
leadership on this issue so that we can position Western Australia as a genuine
investment opportunity into the future. Which of those projects would the
member like us to cancel? Which of those jobs would he like us to cancel? What
is his plan around the transition? We will announce our plans without question.
The first part of our plan was to stop logging in native forest to preserve the
important carbon sink, and I spent two hours listening to the member criticise
it yesterday. There have been numerous times. Why does the member not get on
board and actually play a constructive role in this debate, because it is
moving rapidly and the member is being left very far behind.