Miners' demands increase corruption risk
The mining industry is leading the NSW government down the potential corruption path, Total Environment Centre said today.
View ArticleNew longwall impact study – Sydney water catchments need extra protection
A NSW Government moratorium on coal seam gas (CSG) mining in Sydney's drinking water catchment is welcome but it is the threat posed by longwall coal mining that must be addressed immediately, Total...
View ArticleDEAD KOALA ELECTRICITY – BOYCOTT CALL
Environment groups will be urging consumers to boycott electricity generated from native forests burnt in power stations, describing the announcement by the O'Farrell government as a further attack on...
View ArticleLand clearing law and environment protection on the chopping block
Conservationists have slammed today's proposal by the Shooters and Fishers Party to tear the heart out of state land clearing laws as environmentally irresponsible and out of touch with community values.
View ArticleNationals must not politicise death of Glendon Turner
The National Party should stop politicising the tragic death of environment and heritage officer Glendon Turner in the state's northwest on Tuesday, Total Environment Centre said today.
View ArticleBaird government on verge of environmental insanity?
Moves by senior ministers in the Baird government to open up rare native bush to broadscale land clearing and cripple powers to stop illegal clearing were described as 'insane' today.
View ArticleLand clearing rules not a threat to agriculture
Claims by the NSW Farmers Association that the Native Vegetation Act is crippling agriculture have been completely discredited by land clearing figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws by the...
View ArticleShooters Land Clearing Bill defeated – commonsense prevails
Common sense has prevailed with the defeat by 35 votes to 3 of the bill to dismantle the NSW Native Vegetation Act proposed by the Shooters and Fishers Party and NSW Farmers, environmentalists said...
View ArticleNew native vegetation codes a threat to biodiversity and economy
New 'self-assessable' codes for clearing native vegetation in NSW will increase the risk of vulnerable plant and animal species becoming extinct and undermine efforts to control soil erosion and...
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