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Major mine expansion masquerading as a modification: Glencore’s coal expansion by stealth

October 22, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday 22nd October 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC) has condemned the NSW Planning Department’s decision to open Glencore’s Ulan Coal Mine Modification 8 for public exhibition, describing it as a “major mine expansion masquerading as a modification”. ...

Outdated planning laws hindering nature restoration in NSW

October 16, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 16th October 2025 A delegation of leading environmental organisations, scientists, legal scholars and community advocates have met with NSW politicians to call for urgent legislative reform to unlock large-scale nature restoration across the state. Despite mounting evidence of the ecological and economic costs...

Climate groups and the Stop the Bill Shock coalition protest Origin Energy $1.4 billion profit windfall

October 15, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 15th October 2025 Origin Energy has come under fire for super-profits made at the expense of its customers, as its ongoing investment in coal and gas delays the clean energy transition and keeps energy prices high.  With NSW customer bills set to rise almost...

Water Minister under fire as coal plant takes billions of litres of drinking water from river

October 14, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE14th October 2025The Natural Resources Access Regulator has closed a complaint filed by environment group, 4nature, about Mount Piper power station near Sydney taking excessive volumes of water from a neighbouring river, in apparent contradiction to the intent of its water access licence....

NSW Water Regulators secure funding to meet environmental obligations

October 01, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 1st October 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) has welcomed the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal’s (IPART) final operating expense determination for the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation (WAMC), which has secured funding of $443 million over the next four years....

Nature groups blindsided by sweeping changes to environment laws

September 23, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE23rd September 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental organisation, has today warned that the NSW Government’s proposed changes to NSW environmental protection laws open the way for reckless developments of all kinds. “These extreme changes to...

Redbank biomass plans go up in smoke: IPC rejects proposal

September 16, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 16 September 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental organisation, has today applauded the Independent Planning Commission’s (IPC) decision to reject Verdant Earth Technologies’ biomass power plans as common sense and science-backed. Energy company Verdant Earth...

20% of state’s koalas protected from logging in new “Great Koala NationalPark”

September 07, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 7th September, 2025 The Forest Alliance NSW has strongly welcomed the Minns Labor Government's declaration of a 176,000-hectare Great Koala National Park in the Coffs Coast region and an immediate end to logging in this area. Gary Dunnett from the National Parks Association...

‘One of the most significant conservation victories in decades’: NCC welcomes the Great Koala National Park

September 07, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 7th September 2025 Jacqui Mumford, CEO of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, has today applauded the Minns Labor government's announcement that the full 176 000 Ha of the Great Koala National Park will be protected from logging. “Today’s announcement of the Great...

Ulan coal mine extension undermines climate action, exacerbates Koala crisis

September 04, 2025

4th September 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental organisation, has condemned the Federal Government’s decision to extend Glencore’s Ulan thermal coal mine near Mudgee. “This project will drive up global emissions, destroy local habitats, and lead to more...