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"Long-awaited changes to Australia’s national environmental laws will pass the
Senate on Thursday after a deal between the Albanese government and the Greens.
The hundreds of pages of legislation to reform the
Environment Protection and
Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act include commitments to improve scrutiny
of native forest logging and new fast track assessment measures for some
developments.
Here are seven key features of the new laws:
1. Establishing a federal environment protection agency
2. Creating national environmental standards
3. Introduction of ‘net gain’ and ‘unacceptable impacts’ tests
4. Ministerial discretion
5. Fast-tracked developments, state decisions
6. Logging exemptions closed, land-clearing loophole restricted
7. Changes to the offset framework"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
