Plans for emissions trading have hit a brick wall after a majority of senators said they would vote against the government’s scheme. The opposition and independent Senator Nick Xenophon say they will not support the emissions trading scheme (ETS) in its current form, leaving the government without enough votes to pass it. This casts doubt on whether the scheme can start by July 2010, as the government promised. Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull said coal giant Xstrata estimated the ETS would cost 1,000 jobs and up to $7 billion in investment. “What does the prime minister say to the 1,000 working families he is turning into redundancy families?” Mr Turnbull said.