Ministers Corbell and Gentleman jointly launched a new EPD (Env & Planning Directorate) register listing offset sites which have been established to compensate for the likely environmental impacts of development. The register is available here…. At least some of the Offset Management Plans expect maintenance work to be undertaken by volunteer ParkCare groups. For more information and specifics […]
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The ACT Government has adopted an environmental offsets policy, which ostensibly enables a valued area of bushland under threat of destruction by development, to be ‘neutralised’ by improving a similar area of bushland. Lots of us spend our spare time volunteering with various organisations to plant trees, control weeds, and generally doing good environmental work.
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The development of the EPBC Act Offsets assessment guide and the many benefits of bridging the science-policy divide. Read “The development of the EPBC Act offsets assessment guide”
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Submissions in response to the draft Environmental Offsets policy can now by seen here.
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Environmental offsets are supposed to compensate for ecosystems and biodiversity that are bulldozed to make way for development. But there’s mounting evidence the policy is being subverted, as governments approve controversial offsets across Australia. Di Martin investigates. More…
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Bushland will be “moved” from the ACT to neighbouring NSW. This is one recommendation in the ACT government’s draft environmental offset policy, now being finalised in light of public submissions. In an attempt to balance urban expansion with the ongoing loss of threatened species in the Bush Capital, the ACT government proposes that impacts from
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The Environmental Defender’s Office (ACT) said: “As part of the Commonwealth and ACT Government’s ‘one-stop shop’ for environmental approvals under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, the ACT is developing an offsets policy. Environmental offsets are said to provide ‘environmental compensation’ for development impacts on sites that contain matters of national environmental significance,
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The ACT Government has issued a draft policy dealing with the use of environmental offsets.
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The Regenerators has submitted a response to the draft ACT Environmental Offsets policy. More…
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