FOI - POINTS TO PEP11 APPROVAL, page-76

I have read the actual Media Release.

It is carefully worded to sound like they are doing something when all the NSW Gov is proposing is to ban offshore drilling and resource recovery within NSW waters.

Exploration drilling and resource recovery in Federal waters are still okay.

PEP11 is in Federal waters and very very much alive!!!

Hell....
As per media release - NSW will still let you dredge for pipelines and subsea cables meaning hydrocarbon pipelines can leagally transport hydrocarbons onshore...
Oh and windfarms subsea cables are all good too.

What a waste of time.

The Bill will amend the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 to prohibit:

a) sea bed petroleum and mineral exploration and recovery in NSW coastal waters; and

b) other development within the State for the purposes of sea bed petroleum and mineral exploration and recovery anywhere.



The prohibitions of the Bill do not extend to activities which may benefit the environment such as the recovery of sand for beach nourishment or beach scraping which are undertaken to help protect coastal areas from erosion.



Certain dredging activities could also continue, for example, to increase the depth of anchorages, remove sediments or pollutants, lay pipelines or submarine cables.