19/03/2009 - New projects like factories and pulp mills could be banned if they have a large carbon footprint under mooted changes to environment laws.
A Senate committee has given in-principle support to including a "greenhouse trigger" in the laws.
The committee also supported including a land-clearing trigger, so any project which clears native vegetation could run into trouble.
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) is a federal law which can stand in the way of anything from new hotels to the Tasmanian pulp mill.
It doesn't currently include a greenhouse or land-clearing trigger.
Conservation groups have been pushing for the EPBC to be beefed up.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
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