The latest report from the Climate Commission, released today, highlights the need for urgent action on climate change in NSW, according to the state’s peak environment group.
The report, Climate impacts and opportunities for NSW, finds that climate change impacts on people and the environment will be will be serious and far reaching, with an increasing risk of heatwaves, bushfires, changing patterns of drought and heavy rainfall.
A report released today by the Queensland Water Commission contains warnings about the potential impact on NSW's water supplies by the coal seam gas industry [CSG], according to the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has welcomed Dart Energy's announcement that it will not drill for coal seam gas at St Peters in Sydney's inner west, and has called on the NSW Government to revoke the company's drilling approval.
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has welcomed additional funding for nature conservation and renewable energy in this year’s federal budget, but has condemned the government’s decision to continue multi-billion dollar tax breaks for the mining industry.
Destruction of rivers, streams and wetlands, clearing of forests and woodlands, pollution of air and water, loss of rich farmland, destruction of ancient cultural heritage and irreversible harm to drinking water catchments.
These are the extraordinary environmental and social impacts occuring across NSW as a result of rapid and unrestrained expansion of the mining and coal seam gas industry, according to the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.
NCC and conference hosts North Coast Environment Council (NCEC) have announced an exciting regional conference agenda for 2012 taking place in Coffs Harbour on 5-6 May.
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) has today called on Premier O’Farrell to categorically rule out any weakening of environmental protections for national parks and public lands in New South Wales.
“We are alarmed that government members in the Upper House have lent their support to a move by the Shooters and Fishers Party to establish a parliamentary inquiry into the management of national parks and public lands,” said Pepe Clarke, Chief Executive Officer of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.
Reports that radioactive waste has been uncovered by workers on the Pacific Highway near Port Macquarie must be heeded as a clear warning to the NSW Government about the very real risks posed by radioactive materials.
Five workers at the site displayed symptoms of nausea, sore throat, dry mouth and vomiting after unearthing the material.
The radioactive waste was buried near the highway after a truck carrying radioactive material from the Lucas Heights nuclear facility crashed on the highway in 1980.
New carbon pollution figures released by the federal government highlight the perversity of multi-billion dollar subsidies to the mining industry, according to the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.
The latest update of the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory found that an increase in Australia’s carbon pollution over the last quarter was largely driven by increased fugitive emissions from coal mines. [1]
Friday, 13 April 2012
Mining lease applications by repeat offender must be refused
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