❓ Hon Robin Chapple questions the Gallop Government's lack of legally binding carbon sequestration programs for greenhouse gas-emitting industries on the Burrup Peninsula, given their environmental policy on plantation expansion. Hon Tom Stephens responds by outlining the government's integrated greenhouse strategy and new legislation.
AnsweredQoN 1470Legislative Council
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BURRUP PENINSULA, GREENHOUSE-GAS EMITTING INDUSTRIES 1470. Hon ROBIN CHAPPLE to the minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Heritage: Given the Gallop Government’s environmental policy to continue the expansion of Western Australia’s plantation estate for its wood and carbon sequestration values, why does it not require the proponents of greenhouse gas-emitting industries on the Burrup Peninsula to have legally binding carbon sequestration programs? Such programs would have massive environmental benefits for the urgently required revegetation of the salinity-affected wheatbelt. Hon TOM STEPHENS
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I note that it is question time and the Greens (WA) and the Liberal Party appear to want to sabotage the development of this State. The Government is developing an integrated greenhouse strategy that will provide a framework for a responsible response by Western Australia to this global problem. The strategy will address a range of complex issues using principles based around carbon sequestration, emission reductions, new technologies and adaptation strategies. The Government introduced a package of legislation today that delivers one key part of the greenhouse strategy. It delivers a legislative framework for recognising property rights in tree plantations and carbon sequestration, and links those rights to the land on which the plantations have been established and the carbon has been sequestered. It will now be possible for the Government to consider legally binding sequestration programs for greenhouse gas-emitting industries such as those on the Burrup Peninsula.
BURRUP PENINSULA, GREENHOUSE-GAS EMITTING INDUSTRIES
Given the Gallop Government’s environmental policy to continue the expansion of Western Australia’s plantation estate for its wood and carbon sequestration values, why does it not require the proponents of greenhouse gas-emitting industries on the Burrup Peninsula to have legally binding carbon sequestration programs? Such programs would have massive environmental benefits for the urgently required revegetation of the salinity-affected wheatbelt. Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I note that it is question time and the Greens (WA) and the Liberal Party appear to want to sabotage the development of this State. The Government is developing an integrated greenhouse strategy that will provide a framework for a responsible response by Western Australia to this global problem. The strategy will address a range of complex issues using principles based around carbon sequestration, emission reductions, new technologies and adaptation strategies. The Government introduced a package of legislation today that delivers one key part of the greenhouse strategy. It delivers a legislative framework for recognising property rights in tree plantations and carbon sequestration, and links those rights to the land on which the plantations have been established and the carbon has been sequestered. It will now be possible for the Government to consider legally binding sequestration programs for greenhouse gas-emitting industries such as those on the Burrup Peninsula.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I note that it is question time and the Greens (WA) and the Liberal Party appear to want to sabotage the development of this State. The Government is developing an integrated greenhouse strategy that will provide a framework for a responsible response by Western Australia to this global problem. The strategy will address a range of complex issues using principles based around carbon sequestration, emission reductions, new technologies and adaptation strategies. The Government introduced a package of legislation today that delivers one key part of the greenhouse strategy. It delivers a legislative framework for recognising property rights in tree plantations and carbon sequestration, and links those rights to the land on which the plantations have been established and the carbon has been sequestered. It will now be possible for the Government to consider legally binding sequestration programs for greenhouse gas-emitting industries such as those on the Burrup Peninsula.
I note that it is question time and the Greens (WA) and the Liberal Party appear to want to sabotage the development of this State. The Government is developing an integrated greenhouse strategy that will provide a framework for a responsible response by Western Australia to this global problem. The strategy will address a range of complex issues using principles based around carbon sequestration, emission reductions, new technologies and adaptation strategies. The Government introduced a package of legislation today that delivers one key part of the greenhouse strategy. It delivers a legislative framework for recognising property rights in tree plantations and carbon sequestration, and links those rights to the land on which the plantations have been established and the carbon has been sequestered. It will now be possible for the Government to consider legally binding sequestration programs for greenhouse gas-emitting industries such as those on the Burrup Peninsula.
The Government is developing an integrated greenhouse strategy that will provide a framework for a responsible response by Western Australia to this global problem. The strategy will address a range of complex issues using principles based around carbon sequestration, emission reductions, new technologies and adaptation strategies. The Government introduced a package of legislation today that delivers one key part of the greenhouse strategy. It delivers a legislative framework for recognising property rights in tree plantations and carbon sequestration, and links those rights to the land on which the plantations have been established and the carbon has been sequestered. It will now be possible for the Government to consider legally binding sequestration programs for greenhouse gas-emitting industries such as those on the Burrup Peninsula.
BURRUP PENINSULA, GREENHOUSE-GAS EMITTING INDUSTRIES
Given the Gallop Government’s environmental policy to continue the expansion of Western Australia’s plantation estate for its wood and carbon sequestration values, why does it not require the proponents of greenhouse gas-emitting industries on the Burrup Peninsula to have legally binding carbon sequestration programs? Such programs would have massive environmental benefits for the urgently required revegetation of the salinity-affected wheatbelt. Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I note that it is question time and the Greens (WA) and the Liberal Party appear to want to sabotage the development of this State. The Government is developing an integrated greenhouse strategy that will provide a framework for a responsible response by Western Australia to this global problem. The strategy will address a range of complex issues using principles based around carbon sequestration, emission reductions, new technologies and adaptation strategies. The Government introduced a package of legislation today that delivers one key part of the greenhouse strategy. It delivers a legislative framework for recognising property rights in tree plantations and carbon sequestration, and links those rights to the land on which the plantations have been established and the carbon has been sequestered. It will now be possible for the Government to consider legally binding sequestration programs for greenhouse gas-emitting industries such as those on the Burrup Peninsula.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I note that it is question time and the Greens (WA) and the Liberal Party appear to want to sabotage the development of this State. The Government is developing an integrated greenhouse strategy that will provide a framework for a responsible response by Western Australia to this global problem. The strategy will address a range of complex issues using principles based around carbon sequestration, emission reductions, new technologies and adaptation strategies. The Government introduced a package of legislation today that delivers one key part of the greenhouse strategy. It delivers a legislative framework for recognising property rights in tree plantations and carbon sequestration, and links those rights to the land on which the plantations have been established and the carbon has been sequestered. It will now be possible for the Government to consider legally binding sequestration programs for greenhouse gas-emitting industries such as those on the Burrup Peninsula.
I note that it is question time and the Greens (WA) and the Liberal Party appear to want to sabotage the development of this State. The Government is developing an integrated greenhouse strategy that will provide a framework for a responsible response by Western Australia to this global problem. The strategy will address a range of complex issues using principles based around carbon sequestration, emission reductions, new technologies and adaptation strategies. The Government introduced a package of legislation today that delivers one key part of the greenhouse strategy. It delivers a legislative framework for recognising property rights in tree plantations and carbon sequestration, and links those rights to the land on which the plantations have been established and the carbon has been sequestered. It will now be possible for the Government to consider legally binding sequestration programs for greenhouse gas-emitting industries such as those on the Burrup Peninsula.
The Government is developing an integrated greenhouse strategy that will provide a framework for a responsible response by Western Australia to this global problem. The strategy will address a range of complex issues using principles based around carbon sequestration, emission reductions, new technologies and adaptation strategies. The Government introduced a package of legislation today that delivers one key part of the greenhouse strategy. It delivers a legislative framework for recognising property rights in tree plantations and carbon sequestration, and links those rights to the land on which the plantations have been established and the carbon has been sequestered. It will now be possible for the Government to consider legally binding sequestration programs for greenhouse gas-emitting industries such as those on the Burrup Peninsula.
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