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NGERS carbon emissions data will be reliable: Combet

9/02/2012 -

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet says the federal government will fix the scheme that collects data on corporate carbon emissions before Labor's carbon tax comes into effect.

The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme (NGERS), established in 2007 by the former Howard government, currently reports emissions and energy use data for some 775 corporations.

But from the middle of 2012 the scheme will be used to determine which facilities will be slugged with Labor's carbon tax because they produce more than 25,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.

A national audit office (ANAO) report, released on Tuesday, found that the NGERS is a "workable" greenhouse gas and energy reporting scheme that is more accurate than previous voluntary industry surveys.

But, the ANAO says, the scheme contains "significant security vulnerabilities" and too much duplication across jurisdictions.

Further, in 2009/10, nearly three-quarters of submitted reports contained errors, with 17 per cent containing "significant errors".

But Combet says the issues will be fixed.

"The government will ensure we manage the risks identified before the carbon price comes into effect," he said through a spokeswoman on Wednesday.

"From April this year the NGERS system will be administered by the new Clean Energy Regulator and the biggest emitters will need to audit their reports before they submit them each year."

The $23 per tonne carbon emissions tax on the nation's 500 biggest polluters will come into effect on July 1.

Source: AAP NewsWire

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