NSW environment department spokesperson says offset program for the area has continued despite failure to file reports for three years
The missing conservation reports are for a planning scheme that was designed to guide more than 30 years of housing development in Sydney’s west.The missing conservation reports are for a planning scheme that was designed to guide more than 30 years of housing development in Sydney’s west.
The environment minister, Penny Sharpe, has sought urgent advice from her department about the missing data related to clearing of critically endangered ecosystems The reports track progress towards offset targets for threatened species and ecosystems affected by clearing for new housing and infrastructure in western Sydney. The affected areas include the critically endangered Cumberland plain woodland. The reports also document annual spending on offset credits and conservation areas under the $530m program. Individual transactions under the program can be worth millions of dollars.
“These reports are required as part of the state’s obligations under the federal legal framework,” she said. “Considering the parlous state of biodiversity in NSW and the extent of the known failures of the biodiversity offsets system, it’s completely unacceptable.” The scheme was approved by the federal government in 2011 under a policy that removed the need for developers to seek individual environmental approval for projects. Instead, it allowed environmental approval to be granted upfront for multiple projects across a mapped region and conservation conditions to be set for the life of the development.
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