Fed: Day of reckoning in emissions trading, minister

AAP General News (Australia)
08-13-2009
Fed: Day of reckoning in emissions trading, minister

Climate Change Minister PENNY WONG has insisted the Senate has more than enough information
to make up its mind on the government's planned emissions trading scheme.

Labor's package of 11 bills setting up what the government calls its carbon pollution
reduction scheme is facing certain defeat in the upper house today.

But the coalition claims most of the scheme's detail is contained in yet-to-be-published
regulations the government can implement without parliamentary approval.

Senator WONG's told ABC TV the government's provided an unprecedented amount of information.

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KEYWORD: CLIMATE WONG (CANBERRA)

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