Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. When all the available coal in the Carmichael coalmine is dug up and burnt, how much greenhouse gas pollution will it produce? How many billions of tonnes, and what proportion is that of the remaining global carbon budget?

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question, and no doubt somebody could do the calculation and work out how many tonnes of recoverable coal there are in that basin and how many tonnes of CO2 would be emitted once it was burnt, but it may surprise the honourable member that I do not actually have those figures at my fingertips at the moment. But I am very happy to take the honourable member's question on notice and will do the calculation and let him know.