Mining giants including Hancock Prospecting and Rio Tinto lobbied the Albanese government to weaken national environmental reforms, new documents show.
Mining giants including Hancock Prospecting and Rio Tinto lobbied the Albanese government to weaken national environmental reforms, warning the government’s “nature positive plan” could cost billions of dollars in lost investment and tens of thousands of jobs in Western Australia alone.
Environmental offsets are when governments impose requirements on developers to account for the detrimental impacts of their projects by making it up for it elsewhere. An example would be mandating a mining company purchase forested land under a conservation covenant if its operations would remove similar habitat elsewhere.
These issues raised by the miners will not be included in reforms currently before parliament and there is no timeline for their resolution.to bring a full suite of reform to environmental laws, dubbed the “nature positive plan”, to parliament by the end of 2023. A spokesperson for Plibersek said the government began looking at delivering the reform in tranches last year, months before the prime minister’s office was contacted by Hancock and Rio Tinto.
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