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Redbank biomass plans go up in smoke: IPC rejects proposal

September 16, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 16 September 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental organisation, has today applauded the Independent Planning Commission’s (IPC) decision to reject Verdant Earth Technologies’ biomass power plans as common sense and science-backed. Energy company Verdant Earth...

20% of state’s koalas protected from logging in new “Great Koala NationalPark”

September 07, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 7th September, 2025 The Forest Alliance NSW has strongly welcomed the Minns Labor Government's declaration of a 176,000-hectare Great Koala National Park in the Coffs Coast region and an immediate end to logging in this area. Gary Dunnett from the National Parks Association...

‘One of the most significant conservation victories in decades’: NCC welcomes the Great Koala National Park

September 07, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 7th September 2025 Jacqui Mumford, CEO of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, has today applauded the Minns Labor government's announcement that the full 176 000 Ha of the Great Koala National Park will be protected from logging. “Today’s announcement of the Great...

Ulan coal mine extension undermines climate action, exacerbates Koala crisis

September 04, 2025

4th September 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental organisation, has condemned the Federal Government’s decision to extend Glencore’s Ulan thermal coal mine near Mudgee. “This project will drive up global emissions, destroy local habitats, and lead to more...

Tallaganda Forestry charges welcome, but only ‘tip of the iceberg’

August 29, 2025

29th August, 2025 The Forest Alliance NSW has welcomed the NSW Environment Protection Authority's (EPA’s) decision today to prosecute Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) for 29 charges. The charges related to illegally logging of critical Greater Glider habitat in Tallaganda State Forest on the...

Outrage as NSW rules strangle rivers and wetlands – water for the environment blocked for up to 18 months

August 19, 2025

19th August 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC) is demanding the Minns Government urgently fix legal loopholes that are paralysing the delivery of vital water for the environment across the NSW Murray–Darling Basin. According to the Commonwealth Environmental Water...

Prominent ecologists and climate scientists set to expose Redbank at today's Independent Planning Commission meeting

August 11, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 11 August 2025 At today’s Independent Planning Commission public meeting, the Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC), the state’s leading environmental organisation, will call out the application to restart Redbank Power Station as a biomass-fueled generation facility for what it is: a harmful...

New data reveals land clearing rates in NSW jump 40% across the state

July 28, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 28th July 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of NSW, the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, is calling for urgent protection of rural bushland after Government data released today shows a dramatic jump in land clearing rates. New South Wales’ latest land clearing...

Fish kills increasing, waterway health declining

June 27, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 27th June 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC) has called on the NSW Government to strengthen water sharing rules in light of Thursday's alarming State of the Environment Report. The report found, that despite some wet years, the health...

NSW Budget raises alarm on electricity shortage in two years

June 27, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE27th June 2025 NSW budget papers confirm a forecast energy supply gap in 2027-28, unless renewable energy construction speeds up.[1] “We’re calling on the NSW government to urgently commit to resolving this energy security gap,” said Jacqui Mumford, CEO of the Nature Conservation...