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$600M should be spent on batteries, not gas

May 19, 2021

The $600 million the Morrison government plans to spend on a new gas peaking power plant at Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley would be much better spent on battery storage. The government announced today [1] that it would spend more than half a billion dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money on a gas plant that will probably operate only one week a...

Forestry Corporation must investigate breaches of post-fire logging standards in Mogo State Forest

May 18, 2021

Forestry Corporation appears to have breached its own post-fire logging rules in Mogo State Forest by cutting down a large ironbark, a feed tree for the critically endangered swift parrot. Swift parrots migrate from Tasmania to the mainland during winter and feed on the...

NSW Regional Environment Conference 2021 in Batemans Bay this Saturday

May 17, 2021

More than 100 people are expected to attend the NSW Regional Environment Conference at Bateman’s Bay this Saturday (May 22). “The South Coast of NSW is one of the most stunning places in the world, with an astonishing variety forests, beaches and wetlands,” Nature...

Transport for NSW's referral of biodiversity offsets trades to ICAC is welcome

May 07, 2021

“We welcome news that Transport for NSW has referred to ICAC the sale of biodiversity offset credits in relation to major public works in Western Sydney,” Nature Conservation Council Chief Executive Chris Gambian said.“Reports in the Guardian Australia that some well-placed individuals have made...

Climate, air quality, deforestation and river health should be top of the agenda for Upper Hunter by-election candidates

May 06, 2021

The Nature Conservation Council urges all candidates in the Upper Hunter by-election to put climate change, air quality, the protection of wildlife habitat, and river health at the top of their agendas. “Climate change is the number-one economic and environmental challenge facing communities of...

Floodplain harvesting regulations are a death sentence for our rivers

April 30, 2021

The Nature Conservation Council is urging members of parliament to disallow new regulations legalising the practice of floodplain harvesting that were released today, saying that allowing irrigators to divert floodwaters under the regulations will starve rivers, wetlands, and downstream communities and ecologies of huge volumes of water. “Many of our rivers and wetlands are...

Biodiversity offsetting in NSW drives habitat loss and super profits for a lucky few

April 28, 2021

The Nature Conservation Council will today refer to ICAC the sale of biodiversity offset credits in relation to major roadworks in Western Sydney. Lisa Cox at the Guardian Australia today has revealed more details of windfall profits made by those associated with EcoLogical, a...

Far West gas fields - where is the water coming from?

April 26, 2021

The NSW Government should protect water supplies, farmland, communities and wildlife in the Far West by immediately ruling out the development of an industrial gas field in the region, according to the NSW Nature Conservation Council. The government this year resurrected plans to let...

Wollar is collateral damage in Barilaro's chaotic coal “strategy”

April 23, 2021

Nationals Leader John Barilaro has thrown the community of Wollar near Mudgee under a coal truck by using a new process to open up land for exploration without consulting the people who live there. [1] “Wollar already has three massive coal mines on its...

Government must refer biodiversity offsets scandal to ICAC and review the whole system

April 16, 2021

The NSW Government must refer to ICAC the sale of biodiversity offset credits in relation to major roadworks in Western Sydney and conduct a comprehensive review of the state’s biodiversity offsets regime following revelations byThe Guardian Australia today. [1] In a sensational piece of...