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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development) Bill 2012; In Committee
David Feeney Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence
12:50 pm
I will now read it for the benefit of the senate, you will be thrilled to know, Senator Heffernan:
(b) the Minister believes that the taking of the action:
(i) is likely to have a significant impact on water resources; and
(ii) may have an adverse impact on a matter protected by a provision of Part 3.
I understand that those powers mean that the minister has a wider discretion than you are describing.
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