Scott Ryan (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Fair Competition) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I would point out to the minister that that question is being asked now because of a lack of an answer earlier. Also, no part of the answer provided in the committee stage addresses the point raised by the company about increasing future costs. Given that Coogee Chemicals has spent 16 years developing the best technologies and have the lowest carbon dioxide emissions per tonne of any methanol plant in the world, isn't the threat of increasing costs in the future just another example of how the government's carbon tax is driving up emissions and not reducing them?