Jennie George (Throsby, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Environment and Heritage) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the renewable energy project launched this month in China by his environment minister was funded under the clean development mechanism of Kyoto? Can the Prime Minister also confirm that if the project were controlled by an Australian company it would not have proceeded? Prime Minister, isn’t it the case that Australian companies are being forced offshore because of our isolation from the markets being created by the Kyoto protocol?

John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In precise answer to the tail end of the question: no.