Senate debates

Friday, 1 December 2006

Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006

In Committee

3:12 pm

Photo of Ian CampbellIan Campbell (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

I think the terms are the number of proposals that are referred to us, the number that actually get made controlled actions, the number that are approved with conditions, the number that are approved without conditions and those that are not approved at all. So there are a range of things. Two thousand referrals have been made, resulting in decisions that approval was required in relation to around 420 development proposals. There were 200 assessments completed and 150 approval decisions made. One hundred and twenty fisheries have been assessed and changes in management made. Nearly 200 new species, communities and processes have been included on the list of threatened species and ecological communities. You wanted to know how many have not been approved. I think there were four that were not approved. I think that, of the 150 approval decisions made, 90 per cent of those would be with conditions.

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