Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation, Senator Lundy. Is the minister aware that President Obama said, in his major speech on climate change:

Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our nation's interests.

And:

Our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.

If so, does the minister agree that allowing projects that exacerbate carbon pollution are not in the national interest? If she does agree that they are not in the national interest, will the government now reject coal extraction from the Galilee and Bowen basins because they significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution?