An accelerated cost allowance for the oil sector does encourage that development to move faster. That was the reason it was put in. It is taxpayer money that you keep referring to; it is going into the most profitable sector in the country right now to encourage them to do more, while all the while your government proclaims it wants to reduce emissions. You have set intensity targets--which are not going to cut it, frankly; you must go to a hard cap. You have encouraged the companies to go out and actually do more damage to the environment. You're the only Minister of the Environment perhaps in the world who has brought forward a doomsday scenario about meeting our Kyoto targets, the only environment minister who has stood up and said every industry will shut down and doom will befall us, when all the other countries are talking about the reverse--that if we don't act, these are the serious economic consequences. I don't understand how you can do that.
On December 11th, 2006. See this statement in context.