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New environment laws fall short: gains for nature could be undermined by handing powers to the states

November 27, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 27 November 2025 Australia’s State and Territory Conservation Councils congratulate the Greens for clawing back some big wins in negotiations with Labor, including removing the Regional Forest Agreement exemption and stopping the fast-tracking of fossil fuel projects. However, they say the Albanese Government has...

Environmental regulator urged to investigate spike in coal pollution in Sydney’s drinking water catchment

November 17, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 17th November 2025 The Gardens of Stone Alliance is demanding answers following a recent spike in pollutants entering a local creek downstream from Energy Australia’s Mt Piper Power Station and Centennial Coal's Western Coal Services site near Lithgow. “We tested water in Wangcol Creek on Monday, November 10, that contained dissolved salts...

Crime no longer pays: Stronger water laws passed in NSW Parliament

November 14, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 14th November 2025 The Nature Conservation Council NSW (NCC) has welcomed the passing of the Water Management Legislation Amendment (Stronger Enforcement and Penalties) Bill 2025, describing it as a historic step to protect rivers, wetlands and communities across NSW. The new laws give the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR)...

Minns Government Fast Tracks Destruction as Planning Bill Passes

November 12, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE12th November 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental organisation, is alarmed at the passage of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Planning System Reforms) Bill 2025, which will set environmental protection in NSW back decades. ...

Major mine expansion masquerading as a modification: Glencore’s coal expansion by stealth

October 22, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday 22nd October 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC) has condemned the NSW Planning Department’s decision to open Glencore’s Ulan Coal Mine Modification 8 for public exhibition, describing it as a “major mine expansion masquerading as a modification”. ...

Outdated planning laws hindering nature restoration in NSW

October 16, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 16th October 2025 A delegation of leading environmental organisations, scientists, legal scholars and community advocates have met with NSW politicians to call for urgent legislative reform to unlock large-scale nature restoration across the state. Despite mounting evidence of the ecological and economic costs...

Climate groups and the Stop the Bill Shock coalition protest Origin Energy $1.4 billion profit windfall

October 15, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 15th October 2025 Origin Energy has come under fire for super-profits made at the expense of its customers, as its ongoing investment in coal and gas delays the clean energy transition and keeps energy prices high.  With NSW customer bills set to rise almost...

Water Minister under fire as coal plant takes billions of litres of drinking water from river

October 14, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE14th October 2025The Natural Resources Access Regulator has closed a complaint filed by environment group, 4nature, about Mount Piper power station near Sydney taking excessive volumes of water from a neighbouring river, in apparent contradiction to the intent of its water access licence....

NSW Water Regulators secure funding to meet environmental obligations

October 01, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 1st October 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) has welcomed the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal’s (IPART) final operating expense determination for the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation (WAMC), which has secured funding of $443 million over the next four years....

Nature groups blindsided by sweeping changes to environment laws

September 23, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE23rd September 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental organisation, has today warned that the NSW Government’s proposed changes to NSW environmental protection laws open the way for reckless developments of all kinds. “These extreme changes to...