The National Parks Association of NSW is calling on the NSW Government and transmission line operator Transgrid to remediate environmental damage to Kosciuszko National Park.
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https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/18c8eb11df25ede6b997dd92
Bruce Donald AM, senior environmental lawyer
Over the last five years I have worked with Ted Woodley, Gary Dunnett and the NPA Executive in a voluntary capacity providing legal advice on the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro battery project. Members are well aware that from the outset the project was considered to be entirely misconceived economically, in its electrical engineering and transmission and involving serious environmental impact on Kosciuszko National Park.
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The National Parks Association of NSW (NPA) is calling on the NSW Government to apply increased penalties to Snowy Hydro Limited and its contractors for repeated pollution incidents in Kosciuszko National Park.
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It was the last working day before Christmas 2023, and I got the call that the Land and Environment Court was ready to hand down its judgement on NPA’s appeal against the Snowy 2.0 amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Plan of Management. Four-thirty pm, moments before the court closed for the year, the Chief Justice announced that he was dismissing NPA’s case. The Minister’s decision to remove the prohibition on the construction of new transmission lines through Kosciuszko, just for Snowy 2.0, was upheld.
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The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has again issued a $15,000 fine to Snowy Hydro Limited contractor WeBuild S.P.A, this time in relation to construction works near the Wallaces Creek Bridge at Lobs Hole. At the same time, Snowy Hydro has been issued a $300,000 enforceable undertaking for creating a surface depression in Kosciuszko National Park while tunnelling.
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The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has issued yet another direction (https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/news/media-releases/2023/epamedia231204-snowy-hydro-issued-with-clean-up-notice-for-contaminated-soil ) to Snowy Hydro to stop polluting Kosciuszko National Park.
The latest EPA Clean Up Notice relates to Snowy Hydro’s mismanagement of spoil from blasting and tunnelling in the national park. It follows six environmental breaches over the last year, including a $15,000 fine to project contractor WeBuild for allowing 9000 litres of polluted water into the Yarrangobilly River.
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