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NSW Labor commits to serious koala protection
January 19, 2023
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW, the state’s peak environment organisation, welcomes Labor’s Plan to Save Koalas. NCC Chief Executive Jacqui Mumford says the plan represents serious and overdue action to address the most pressing threat facing koalas in our state. “Loss of habitat...
Read MoreMurray Cod vanishing from the Darling-Baaka
January 17, 2023
Appalling water management is to blame for the complete eradication of the iconic Murray Cod in stretches of the Darling-Baaka River in New South Wales. The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Monitoring, Evaluation and Research program’s 2022 survey found not one single Murray Cod between...
Read MoreNature Conservation Council of NSW cautiously welcomes federal government's response to the Samuel Review on national environment law.
December 08, 2022
The Government's response to the Samuel review of national environment law reiterates its intention to end nature destruction and move toward nature repair, but the critical test will be whether this reform package can stop extinctions before more is irreversibly lost. "This is...
Read MoreEndangered listing of Southern Greater Gliders: more evidence of the damage
December 02, 2022
The listing of the Southern Great Glider as an endangered species highlights the urgent need to ban native forest logging in New South Wales.
Read MoreCoalition reopens the ‘koala wars’ by introducing a new bill to facilitate logging of koala habitat on private land
November 14, 2022
The NSW Government has released details of its plan to strip local councils of their ability to limit native forest logging and implement environmental controls which protect threatened species. “It’s a clear power grab by the National Party which has always been hell bent...
Read MoreCoal-fired power station’s future under a toxic cloud as NSW EPA finds it has been operating illegally
October 28, 2022
The NSW Environment Protection Authority today gave Vales Point coal-fired power station on Lake Macquarie two years to come into compliance with the state’s clean air laws, after it found the power station's previous rolling exemption to the laws was illegal.
Read MoreWater Management Killing the Darling-Baaka
October 25, 2022
25 October 2022 Water Management Killing the Darling-Baaka New research published by the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A confirms that it is the over extraction and mismanagement of water that is causing most of the damage to the Darling-Baaka...
Read MoreLithgow becoming clean energy hub as coal-fired generator turns to batteries
October 13, 2022
Today Lithgow takes another leap toward being a clean energy hub with EnergyAustralia announcing a new mega-battery at its coal-fired power station site.
Read MoreEncouraging signs of progress on Murray Darling Basin Plan but we can’t afford further delays
October 12, 2022
In response to today’s Murray Darling Basin Ministerial Council (MINCO) meeting hosted by the Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek – Environment Victoria, NSW Conservation Council and Conservation Council SA responded: Jono La Nauze, CEO of Environment Victoria, said: “We are...
Read MoreLegal cloud hangs over Vales Point power station sale
September 20, 2022
The sale of Vales Point coal power station [1] should trigger the NSW EPA to finally bring the plant into compliance with Clean Air Regulation. [2] “Vales Point power station is a major source of nitrogen oxides and has been granted an exemption to...
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