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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.
The Nature Conservation Council and National Parks Association have welcomed the creation of 70,000 hectares of new national parks and reserves in Western NSW but expressed disappointment at Opposition attempts to undermine this important conservation outcome by opposing inclusion of 12,000 hectares in the new parks.
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW is calling on both the State government and Opposition to support stronger protection for the critically endangered grey nurse sharks near South West Rocks and in all NSW waters.
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW will hold an informative half-day workshop in Winmalee on Saturday 13 November exploring how residents can live safely with fire in the Lower Blue Mountains, from understanding fire behaviour and local ecology to how homes can be better protected from wildfire.
Participants will hear expert speakers from the CSIRO, the NSW Rural Fire Service, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Blue Mountains City Council and the Nature Conservation Council.
The Murray Darling Basin Plan must be strengthened for any real chance of returning NSW's precious wetlands, streams and rivers to good health, according to the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and Inland Rivers Network.
The Guide to the proposed Basin Plan found an additional 7600GL per year must be returned to the environment to restore health to all catchments in the Murray Darling Basin. Yet recent discussions have centered around returning 4000GL or as little as 3000GL a year of water for the environment.
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