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The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has welcomed the new zoning plan for Solitary Islands
Marine Park as a positive step towards the better protection of local marine life and habitats.
“The changes to the Solitary Islands Marine Park zoning plan will deliver improved conservation
outcomes, with long‐term benefits for recreational fishers and local tourism operators,” Nature
Conservation Council of NSW Chief Executive Officer Pepe Clarke said today.
On Monday 24 January, the Nature Conservation Council of NSW joined community members marking the final day of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the sale of NSW power assets by gathering at the front gates of NSW Parliament to oppose spending public money on a state-run coal mine to support polluting power stations.
Environment groups say their worst fears have been realised, with new evidence that the
Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) has approved large areas of
oldgrowth forests for logging illegally and in breach of the Native Vegetation Act 2003.
An independent review of the old growth forest assessment procedures employed by DECCW when
The green light for a $150 million solar farm near the NSW town of Bungendore is a positive step towards replacing the state’s polluting coal-fired power generation with new renewable energy sources, according to the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.
“The approval of the state’s largest solar farm is an exciting opportunity for powering ahead with renewable energy development in NSW,” Chief Executive Officer Pepe Clarke said today.
Regulation of mining and gas industries in NSW should be based on the strongest safeguards for the health and wellbeing of the environment and community, not subject to the vested interests of these industries, according to the state’s peak environment group.
NSW environment groups have welcomed the NSW Opposition’s commitment to create a Dharawal
National Park about 65km south‐west of Sydney, if it forms government following the State election in March.
Following a hard‐fought campaign by local conservation groups, Illawarra Coal announced in
October 2010 that it would not mine under the Dharawal State Conservation Area as part of BHP
Billiton’s Bulli Seam Project. The Opposition’s proposal to convert the Dharawal SCA to a National
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has lodged a complaint with the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission asking it to investigate potential breaches to competition law arising from the Keneally government’s development of a coal mine in Cobbora.
The Government’s $1.3 billion coalmine will supply state-owned power generators with coal at between $35 to $40 a tonne, well below the export market price of $60 to $70 a tonne and an artificial subsidy for polluting coal-fired power generation.
The first comprehensive analysis of the health of NSW’s rivers, wetlands and catchments
highlights the critical stress our water resources are under from overallocation, rapid
development, mining, land clearing and other human impact pressures, according to the
state’s leading environment groups.
The Department of the Environment, Climate Change and Water’s 2010 State of the
catchment reports found wetland areas in all 13 catchments assessed across NSW were in
The concerns of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, community environment groups, hundreds of citizens and local councillors who opposed the concentration of planning powers in the hands of the Planning Minister under Part 3A laws have been vindicated in a report released yesterday by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has called for shark nets to be removed from NSW beaches after the death of a critically endangered grey nurse shark in a net off Sydney’s Bondi Beach (9 December 2010)
Fear about sharks should not drive the continued netting of NSW beaches when nets only offer a false sense of security, according to Chief Executive Officer Pepe Clarke.
“Sharks can easily swim over or around nets, and many sharks caught in nets are found between the net and the beach itself,” he said.
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