Bill
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Great Australian Bight) Bill 2018
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01.
- Sponsor
- STORER, Sen Tim
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-11-29
- second reading — 2018-11-29
- other — 2019-07-01
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2018-11-29.
The bill would add a second environmental assessment under the EPBC Act for petroleum and greenhouse gas activities in the Great Australian Bight that have already been approved by the offshore regulator.
The Minister would decide whether the second assessment uses an environmental impact statement or a public inquiry, while keeping the regulator's initial review.
The bill also transfers final decision-making for these activities back to the Minister and makes the 2014 class approval not apply to the Bight, so activities there must go through the new process.
- Requires a second assessment under the EPBC Act for regulated activities in the Bight.
- Gives the Minister ultimate oversight and responsibility for approving such activities.
- Makes the Minister's approval of actions under an endorsed policy a legislative instrument for parliamentary scrutiny.
- Removes certain requirements for making approvals under section 146B because the Legislation Act will apply.
- Modifies the 2014 approval so it no longer covers petroleum and greenhouse gas activities in the Great Australian Bight.
Companies proposing petroleum or greenhouse gas activities in the Great Australian Bight, the offshore regulator NOPSEMA, and the Minister for the Environment.
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