NSW will require environmental impact statements for major projects to be certified by accredited environmental practitioners under proposed regulatory changes.
The NSW government has launched a new fast-track environmental assessment program to assist about 30 major projects, and two transmission projects will be among the first to benefit from it.
A decade after an international energy company sought environmental approval for a major wind farm, it has secured approval for a dramatically scaled-back version.
After imposing its first carbon offset condition late last month, the NSW Independent Planning Commission is saying little about how it might exercise its carbon offset conditioning powers in future.
The NSW Independent Planning Commission today approved Santos to proceed with its $3.6 billion Narrabri coal seam gas project, subject to extra conditions on matters including groundwater and greenhouse gas.
The company proposing a WA gas project, along with the state's environmental agency, are taking a very different stance on carbon offsetting to Santos and the NSW government.
Santos has presented the Independent Planning Commission with a new legal opinion on ecologically sustainable development and carbon emissions, as it seeks approval for its Narrabri coal seam gas project.
The NSW Resources Regulator has charged two Whitehaven subsidiaries with eight offences each, all of which carry a maximum penalty of $1.1 million, over alleged exploration breaches.
The spiralling costs of biodiversity offsets in NSW is often a problem for proponents of clean energy projects in the state, according to the Clean Energy Council.