Media releases
7 April 2020
The Nature Conservation Council has asked the EPA to investigate whether Delta Electricity has breached its licence by allowing emissions of deadly fine particles from its Vales Point power station to almost triple in one year.
Air pollutionClimate and energy
1 April 2019
The Nature Conservation Council is considering taking legal action to overturn a NSW Planning Department approval allowing coal giant Peabody Energy to undermine Woronora Reservoir, the main water supply for more than 220,000 people in Sydney’s south.
Climate and energyRivers and wetlands
27 March 2020
A damning Natural Resources Commission report released today shows, once again, the National Party’s incompetence in the management of natural resources in NSW.
Forests and wildlife
13 March 2020
The Nature Conservation Council welcomes the NSW Government ‘Net-Zero Plan’ as a good step, but warns that ambition must lift to limit the climate crisis.
Climate and energy
21 February 2020
Eraring coal-fired power station on the Central Coast must close by 2026 for NSW to play its part in limiting global heating to below 2 degrees, according to the Nature Conservation Council.
Climate and energy
20 February 2020
Almost three years after the ABC’s 4 Corners exposed chronic mismanagement of inland rivers in NSW it appears little has changed, according to conservation groups.
Rivers and wetlands
14 Feb 2020
The Federal Government must withdraw its $11 million grant offer to help coal baron Trevor St Baker upgrade his Vales Point power station and use the money to support clean energy and storage.
Air pollutionClimate and energyCoal and gas
13 February 2020
Any government-funded recovery package for the logging industry must include a short-term moratorium on native forest logging and a timeline for transitioning the industry to source 100% of its timber from sustainably managed plantations. [1]
Forests and wildlife
12 February 2020
Conservation groups are outraged at the NSW Government’s decision to allow big irrigators to take millions of litres of flood water from the Barwon-Darling river system.
Rivers and wetlands