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Australia: Tree planting 'offset' allowing miners to destroy ecosystems

2016-03-17 02:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Planting trees on old mine sites can count as an offset, allowing miners to destroy native ecosystems elsewhere, despite documents showing government staff recommended against the move. The revelations appear in documents obtained under freedom of information laws by the NSW Nature Conservation Council and revealed by Fairfax Media. Staff in the Office of Environment and Heritage thought the expansion of what could count as an offset went too far, and was a political decision, rather than...

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