Media Releases

August 26, 2021

Today’s landmark NSW Land and Environment Court ruling should send a chill through the state’s most polluting industries, including the electricity and commercial transport sectors.  The court has ordered the NSW Environment Protection Authority to develop “policies to ensure environment protection from climate change”. [1]  “Most people will be astonished to learn the EPA has until now not regulated greenhouse gases, which are arguably our most dangerous environmental pollutants,” Nature...

August 25, 2021

Development controls similar to those announced for Wilton in southwest Sydney this week should be applied across the state to ensure the deadly impacts of hotter, longer heatwaves are not amplified by poor urban design.  The Wilton Development Control Plan, announced by Planning Minister...

August 20, 2021

Centennial Coal’s Angus Place West colliery proposal should be rejected in light of the alarming forecasts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last week. [1]  Centennial Coal this week outlined plans to reopen the mouthballed Angus Place Colliery and extract up to 8.5 millions tonnes of coal.  When that coal is burnt it will add...

August 20, 2021

Conservation leaders urge Premier to protect Kosciuszko Nation Park from commercial over-development Some of the state’s leading conservationists, ecologists and former national parks managers are “imploring” Premier Gladys Berejiklian to “set aside disastrous plans” to significantly increase commercial development of Kosciuszko National Park. The...

August 16, 2021

An appeal was heard today before the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) to access key reports on the management of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.  The appeal, lodged by the Invasive Species Council in support of the Reclaim Kosci campaign, seeks access...

August 16, 2021

The Nature Conservation Council calls on the NSW Government to scrap planned logging operations near towns and settlements after new research found logging significantly increases the risks of catastrophic fires.  Australian National University researchers found regrowth forests were at much higher risks of catastrophic, crowning bushfires than older stands for 10 to 40 years after logging. [1] Lead author on...

August 16, 2021

Plans to convert Redbank power station to burn wood for electricity have been dealt a major blow after a NSW Parliamentary inquiry recommended the practice be banned. [1]    The Legislative Assembly Committee on Environment and Planning has concluded “forest biomass is not a renewable, sustainable source of energy” and has recommended changing the state’s environmental laws to rule it out as...

August 04, 2021

Legal action challenging the North East Regional Forest Agreement, which controls logging operations in northern NSW, could be a turning point in the protection of native forests and koalas in this state. [1] The state’s native forests are in ecological decline because of decades...

August 02, 2021

Centennial Coal’s decision to scrap plans to re-open and expand the mothballed Angus Place colliery near Lithgow is a win for nature, climate action and the community. [1]  The company has notified the NSW Department of Planning it will not proceed the Angus Place Mine...

July 29, 2021

The Federal Government's proposal to subsidise traditional electricity generators through a new charge on household electricity bills is a blatant attempt to delay the switch to clean energy according to the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.   Leaked advice from the Energy Security Board to...