Author: Craig Duncan

The ‘centrepiece’ of new Environmental Law recommendations is a set of National Environmental Standards. See the interim report. Interim Report Highlights This wide ranging report has a whole lot of recommendations that seem to be reflective of how we transmit information between ourselves now, in the twenty-first century, and so have a kind of odd… Continue reading National Environmental Standards – Part 1 – Models and data

Let’s talk about offsets. On the bright side, the interim report does contain some wisdom, albeit in the form of some belated observations about the bleeding obvious. The Reviewers interim conclusion confirms what we already know, namely: Offsets do not currently offset the impact of development. Proponents are allowed to clear or otherwise impact habitat… Continue reading National Environmental Standards – Part 2 – Offsets

Any reform that focusses on the possibility of ecosystem and biodiversity improvement in regional Australia has to accept that the primary agents of environmental degradation, in rural areas, may be the farmers themselves. And complicating that matter is that the discussion is already concerned with a heavily degraded environment in which many species are already… Continue reading National Environmental Standards – Part 3 – Farming

The Discussion Paper The direct link to the Review’s Discussion Paper is here. The review of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act (Cth) is supposed to occur at least once every ten years. This is taken literally, since the last review was done in 2009. A slight shift is the move for more universal standards,… Continue reading Background to EPBC Act Review