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is now asked about the safeguard mechanism and calls from the Greens for the government to stop opening new coal and gas projects. He is asked whether his party would “seriously vote against it”.
He says that “Labor’s own documents” show pollution form gas will keep going up even if the changes to the safeguard mechanism passes without a promise to stop new developments. Those coal and gas mines that are on the books at the moment are so big it will wipe out any gains that are made from there. They talk about maybe 200m tonnes. That might all be on paper. Maybe 200m tonnes. Open up the Northern Territory gas fields which Labor is talking about at the moment and you are talking about 34b tonnes of pollution, new pollution going into the atmosphere.
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