Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. After the minister agreeing with my figure by default, my question is this: is the Gunns’ polluting pulp mill going to be fired by a wood furnace burning 500,000 tonnes of native wood resource each year, polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases from an irreplaceable and unsustainable resource, and will that be sold under this government’s greenwash to the Melbourne market as green power through Basslink? If so, does the minister not agree that that is an absolute sham and con on consumers wanting this government to do better on the environment than polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases?