Eastern Star Gas has conducted coal seam gas exploration and production activities in the Pilliga forest without seeking federal assessment on matters of national environmental significance, according to a report by the Northern Inland Council for the Environment, The Wilderness Society and the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.
Healthy communities rely on healthy rivers. Let Craig Knowles know you want him to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to revive the Murray-Darling river system.
Local community environment groups gathered at the Nature Conservation Council Regional Conference in Batemans Bay on the weekend (Sat 7 and Sun 8 May) to discuss current challenges and opportunities for the environment, including marine protection, forestry issues and the state’s planning laws.
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has condemned new NSW Fisheries Minister Katrina
Hodgkinson’s decision to wind back vital protection for critically endangered shark species at Fish
Rock and Green Island on NSW’s mid-north coast.
Fish Rock and Green Island are among the most important critical habitat areas for grey nurse sharks
on the east coast of Australia.
“Minister Hodgkinson’s roll back of safeguards at Fish Rock and Green Island leave behind totally
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has welcomed the decision by Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke to require federal assessment and approval of a proposal by Eastern Star Gas to develop a massive coal seam gas field in the Pilliga Scrub, near Narrabri in northern NSW.
Federal assessment and approval process will also be required for the associated development of a major gas pipeline and an LNG export processing facility at Kooragang Island at Newcastle.
The Shooters and Fishers Party are way off target if they expect conservationists and the community
to accept political deals that open up national parks to hunting and ban new national parks and marine
parks, according to the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.
As reported in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, the Shooters Party presented the former Labor
government with a long ‘hunting’ list winding back vital environment protection for our native wildlife,
special places and marine environments.
The Nature Conservation Council and the Inland Rivers Network, together with the Central West Environment Council recently held a community event in Orange on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
The Basin Plan Talk provided an excellent opportunity for locals to hear from experts about why we need a Basin Plan and the process and proposals for the Plan.
Labor’s Coal and Coal Seam Gas Plan will not go far enough to restrain the serious threats posed by the rapid expansion of coal and coal seam gas mining it has allowed across the state over the past 16 years, according to the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.
“The Coal and Seam Gas Plan is too little, too late for the growing number of communities unwilling to risk their health, natural environment, water supplies and food production for dangerous mining projects,” CEO Pepe Clarke said.
An alliance of 63 conservation organisations representing more than 230,000 Australians has called on all parties contesting the NSW State election to take the bold, urgent action needed for a better future for the environment.
NSW’s leading conservation groups have welcomed the Coalition’s recognition that protecting and enhancing the natural environment should be a core responsibility of our next State government.
The Coalition’s investment $103 million over four years will deliver positive environmental outcomes by supporting improved management of natural areas and resourcing community action to restore degraded bushland. However, greater investment will be required to adequately address the challenges facing our environment in coming years.
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