Australian Conservation Foundation says blowouts show government’s safeguard mechanism is ‘failing’ to control industrial emissions
She said that no state or federal authority was dealing with the issue adequately despite some attempts by the New South Wales“These emissions blowouts matter because the extra pollution is supercharging our climate problem,” she said. “I don’t think we can expect companies to know exactly what their emissions are going to be in advance, but I think it needs to be in the ballpark of what is approved. One in five polluting significantly more than estimated is not in the ballpark.
in northern Western Australia. Over four years it released the equivalent of 16m tonnes more carbon dioxide than the company forecast in an environmental impact statement submitted to the state government, according to the ACF report. Guardian Australia asked the Morrison government and relevant federal departments and agencies a series of questions about the ACF report. A spokesperson from the CleanRegulator said: “The Clean Energy Regulator has looked at the report. It contains errors of fact and analytical flaws. We will respond to those in due course.”