Senate debates
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Customs) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Excise) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — General) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2]
In Committee
7:56 pm
Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party) Share this | Hansard source
The minister will not be surprised to know that I have a number of questions around the area of agriculture. Obviously there will be some significant potential impacts in that area, and I have received a lot of correspondence and communication from those farmers out in the community who are extremely concerned about the impacts of the potential ETS on their farming businesses and their farming practices. While, of course, we are well aware that ‘agriculture’ has been excluded, there will be a number of embedded costs within the emissions trading scheme itself that will impact on those farmers. I firstly ask the minister if she could give me some indication—I will start with a very simple area—of the impact of fuel and of how any increases in fuel prices through the emissions trading scheme will impact on the farming sector.
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