Media releases

6 November 2019

2019 NSW Environment Awards

The best environmental campaigners and campaigns in the state have been recognised at the 2019 NSW Environment Awards in Sydney.

Air pollution Forests and wildlife Marine Conservation Planning and Development Climate and energy Rivers and wetlands Pollution and waste Coal and gas

22 October 2019

Planning changes deny our biggest challenge – climate change

NSW Government is effectively banning planning bodies from considering the biggest environmental challenge of our age - climate change.

Climate and energy

13 October 2019

Government dam plans will add to the ecological crisis gripping our rivers (1)

The Nature Conservation Council calls on the NSW Government to retain thorough assessment of water infrastructure projects to avoid further ecological catastrophes like the mass fish kills earlier this year.

Forests and wildlife Planning and Development NSW Parliament Rivers and wetlands

3 October 2019

Civil organisations unite to oppose anti-protest provisions of Right to Farm Bill

An alliance of unions, environment groups and civil liberties advocates will today unite to tell NSW MPs that proposed laws strike at the heart of civil liberties and the right to peaceful protest.

Air pollution Forests and wildlife Marine Conservation Planning and Development Climate and energy NSW Parliament Rivers and wetlands Pollution and waste Coal and gas

13 October 2019

Government dam plans will add to the ecological crisis gripping our rivers

The NSW Government must retain thorough assessment of water infrastructure projects to avoid further ecological catastrophes like the mass fish kills earlier this year.

Rivers and wetlands

11 October 2019

Warragamba Dam environmental consultant must be beyond reproach

The NSW Government must order a fresh assessment of the cultural and environmental impacts of raising Warragamba Dam wall after the original consultant, Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC), was accused of abusing Indigenous rights around the world.

8 October 2019

Radiata Plateau is a victory for local conservationists

The Nature Conservation Council welcomes NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean’s decision to buy and protect Radiata Plateau, the last undeveloped peninsula-plateau in the upper Blue Mountains.

16 October 2019

Amendments to the Right to Farm Bill are welcome but it still threatens our civil liberties

The Nature Conservation Council will continue to oppose the Right to Farm Bill despite amendments by the government that limit the scope of the anti-protest measures to agricultural land.

Forests and wildlife Planning and Development Climate and energy NSW Parliament

24 September 2019

Farm Bill attacks civil liberties and protest rights

The Berejiklian government has introduced a Bill to NSW Parliament that will significantly restrict people’s civil liberties and their rights to peaceful protest.

Forests and wildlife Planning and Development Climate and energy NSW Parliament Rivers and wetlands Uranium Coal and gas

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