❓ A parliamentary question regarding the allocation of $830,000 in offset funds for mining at Ludlow, specifically questioning a perceived discrepancy in the Minister's statements about the funds' use and the priority given to different groups in the decision-making process. The Minister denies any discrepancy and states no group was given priority.
AnsweredQoN 1034Legislative Council
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Further to question without notice 947 of 10 November 2004 - (1) Will the minister please explain the discrepancy between the answer she gave on 10 November, in relation to the $830 000 offset for mining at Ludlow, in which she said - Priorities for the use of the offset funds for tuart conservation initiatives are being considered for whole-of-tuart woodland projects as well as tall tuart woodland and Ludlow-based projects . . . and the minister’s statement No 639, procedure 4, in which she said - Management of Provided Funds (See commitment 6). The funds provided under commitment 6 will be placed in a Specific Purpose Account in the Conservation and Land Management Fund. The purpose of the account will be to distribute the funds in a way which optimises the long-term benefit to conservation of Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) forest in the Ludlow area, through the following strategies: 1. Acquisition of additional land for long-term conservation of Tuart; 2. Rehabilitation of acquired lands (principally regeneration as a first step, leading to the establishment of Tuart trees); and 3. Other Tuart conservation measures, such as additional research and development of management plans. Priorities for expenditure will be determined by the Minister for the Environment on advice of the Department of Conservation and Land Management and the Conservation Commission in consultation with the Ludlow Working Party and other relevant stakeholders. (2) Will the minister confirm that the offset will be spent on conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area exclusively? (3) Why has the Tuart Response Group received priority over the Ludlow Working Party in relation to how this offset will be spent? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) There is no discrepancy. The purpose of procedure 4 is to provide for the distribution of funds to optimise the long-term benefits for the conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area. The allocation of these offset funds is not necessarily linked geographically because some potential projects that provide whole-of-tuart woodland and tall-tuart woodland conservation benefits such as research also provide conservation benefits for Ludlow tuart woodlands. (3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
(1) Will the minister please explain the discrepancy between the answer she gave on 10 November, in relation to the $830 000 offset for mining at Ludlow, in which she said - Priorities for the use of the offset funds for tuart conservation initiatives are being considered for whole-of-tuart woodland projects as well as tall tuart woodland and Ludlow-based projects . . . and the minister’s statement No 639, procedure 4, in which she said - Management of Provided Funds (See commitment 6). The funds provided under commitment 6 will be placed in a Specific Purpose Account in the Conservation and Land Management Fund. The purpose of the account will be to distribute the funds in a way which optimises the long-term benefit to conservation of Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) forest in the Ludlow area, through the following strategies: 1. Acquisition of additional land for long-term conservation of Tuart; 2. Rehabilitation of acquired lands (principally regeneration as a first step, leading to the establishment of Tuart trees); and 3. Other Tuart conservation measures, such as additional research and development of management plans. Priorities for expenditure will be determined by the Minister for the Environment on advice of the Department of Conservation and Land Management and the Conservation Commission in consultation with the Ludlow Working Party and other relevant stakeholders. (2) Will the minister confirm that the offset will be spent on conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area exclusively? (3) Why has the Tuart Response Group received priority over the Ludlow Working Party in relation to how this offset will be spent? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) There is no discrepancy. The purpose of procedure 4 is to provide for the distribution of funds to optimise the long-term benefits for the conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area. The allocation of these offset funds is not necessarily linked geographically because some potential projects that provide whole-of-tuart woodland and tall-tuart woodland conservation benefits such as research also provide conservation benefits for Ludlow tuart woodlands. (3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
The funds provided under commitment 6 will be placed in a Specific Purpose Account in the Conservation and Land Management Fund. The purpose of the account will be to distribute the funds in a way which optimises the long-term benefit to conservation of Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) forest in the Ludlow area, through the following strategies: 1. Acquisition of additional land for long-term conservation of Tuart; 2. Rehabilitation of acquired lands (principally regeneration as a first step, leading to the establishment of Tuart trees); and 3. Other Tuart conservation measures, such as additional research and development of management plans. Priorities for expenditure will be determined by the Minister for the Environment on advice of the Department of Conservation and Land Management and the Conservation Commission in consultation with the Ludlow Working Party and other relevant stakeholders.
The purpose of the account will be to distribute the funds in a way which optimises the long-term benefit to conservation of Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) forest in the Ludlow area, through the following strategies: 1. Acquisition of additional land for long-term conservation of Tuart; 2. Rehabilitation of acquired lands (principally regeneration as a first step, leading to the establishment of Tuart trees); and 3. Other Tuart conservation measures, such as additional research and development of management plans. Priorities for expenditure will be determined by the Minister for the Environment on advice of the Department of Conservation and Land Management and the Conservation Commission in consultation with the Ludlow Working Party and other relevant stakeholders.
2. Rehabilitation of acquired lands (principally regeneration as a first step, leading to the establishment of Tuart trees); and 3. Other Tuart conservation measures, such as additional research and development of management plans.
3. Other Tuart conservation measures, such as additional research and development of management plans.
(3) Why has the Tuart Response Group received priority over the Ludlow Working Party in relation to how this offset will be spent? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) There is no discrepancy. The purpose of procedure 4 is to provide for the distribution of funds to optimise the long-term benefits for the conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area. The allocation of these offset funds is not necessarily linked geographically because some potential projects that provide whole-of-tuart woodland and tall-tuart woodland conservation benefits such as research also provide conservation benefits for Ludlow tuart woodlands. (3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) There is no discrepancy. The purpose of procedure 4 is to provide for the distribution of funds to optimise the long-term benefits for the conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area. The allocation of these offset funds is not necessarily linked geographically because some potential projects that provide whole-of-tuart woodland and tall-tuart woodland conservation benefits such as research also provide conservation benefits for Ludlow tuart woodlands. (3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) There is no discrepancy. The purpose of procedure 4 is to provide for the distribution of funds to optimise the long-term benefits for the conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area. The allocation of these offset funds is not necessarily linked geographically because some potential projects that provide whole-of-tuart woodland and tall-tuart woodland conservation benefits such as research also provide conservation benefits for Ludlow tuart woodlands. (3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
(1)-(2) There is no discrepancy. The purpose of procedure 4 is to provide for the distribution of funds to optimise the long-term benefits for the conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area. The allocation of these offset funds is not necessarily linked geographically because some potential projects that provide whole-of-tuart woodland and tall-tuart woodland conservation benefits such as research also provide conservation benefits for Ludlow tuart woodlands. (3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
(3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
(1) Will the minister please explain the discrepancy between the answer she gave on 10 November, in relation to the $830 000 offset for mining at Ludlow, in which she said - Priorities for the use of the offset funds for tuart conservation initiatives are being considered for whole-of-tuart woodland projects as well as tall tuart woodland and Ludlow-based projects . . . and the minister’s statement No 639, procedure 4, in which she said - Management of Provided Funds (See commitment 6). The funds provided under commitment 6 will be placed in a Specific Purpose Account in the Conservation and Land Management Fund. The purpose of the account will be to distribute the funds in a way which optimises the long-term benefit to conservation of Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) forest in the Ludlow area, through the following strategies: 1. Acquisition of additional land for long-term conservation of Tuart; 2. Rehabilitation of acquired lands (principally regeneration as a first step, leading to the establishment of Tuart trees); and 3. Other Tuart conservation measures, such as additional research and development of management plans. Priorities for expenditure will be determined by the Minister for the Environment on advice of the Department of Conservation and Land Management and the Conservation Commission in consultation with the Ludlow Working Party and other relevant stakeholders. (2) Will the minister confirm that the offset will be spent on conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area exclusively? (3) Why has the Tuart Response Group received priority over the Ludlow Working Party in relation to how this offset will be spent? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) There is no discrepancy. The purpose of procedure 4 is to provide for the distribution of funds to optimise the long-term benefits for the conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area. The allocation of these offset funds is not necessarily linked geographically because some potential projects that provide whole-of-tuart woodland and tall-tuart woodland conservation benefits such as research also provide conservation benefits for Ludlow tuart woodlands. (3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
The funds provided under commitment 6 will be placed in a Specific Purpose Account in the Conservation and Land Management Fund. The purpose of the account will be to distribute the funds in a way which optimises the long-term benefit to conservation of Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) forest in the Ludlow area, through the following strategies: 1. Acquisition of additional land for long-term conservation of Tuart; 2. Rehabilitation of acquired lands (principally regeneration as a first step, leading to the establishment of Tuart trees); and 3. Other Tuart conservation measures, such as additional research and development of management plans. Priorities for expenditure will be determined by the Minister for the Environment on advice of the Department of Conservation and Land Management and the Conservation Commission in consultation with the Ludlow Working Party and other relevant stakeholders.
The purpose of the account will be to distribute the funds in a way which optimises the long-term benefit to conservation of Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) forest in the Ludlow area, through the following strategies: 1. Acquisition of additional land for long-term conservation of Tuart; 2. Rehabilitation of acquired lands (principally regeneration as a first step, leading to the establishment of Tuart trees); and 3. Other Tuart conservation measures, such as additional research and development of management plans. Priorities for expenditure will be determined by the Minister for the Environment on advice of the Department of Conservation and Land Management and the Conservation Commission in consultation with the Ludlow Working Party and other relevant stakeholders.
2. Rehabilitation of acquired lands (principally regeneration as a first step, leading to the establishment of Tuart trees); and 3. Other Tuart conservation measures, such as additional research and development of management plans.
3. Other Tuart conservation measures, such as additional research and development of management plans.
(3) Why has the Tuart Response Group received priority over the Ludlow Working Party in relation to how this offset will be spent? Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) There is no discrepancy. The purpose of procedure 4 is to provide for the distribution of funds to optimise the long-term benefits for the conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area. The allocation of these offset funds is not necessarily linked geographically because some potential projects that provide whole-of-tuart woodland and tall-tuart woodland conservation benefits such as research also provide conservation benefits for Ludlow tuart woodlands. (3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) There is no discrepancy. The purpose of procedure 4 is to provide for the distribution of funds to optimise the long-term benefits for the conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area. The allocation of these offset funds is not necessarily linked geographically because some potential projects that provide whole-of-tuart woodland and tall-tuart woodland conservation benefits such as research also provide conservation benefits for Ludlow tuart woodlands. (3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) There is no discrepancy. The purpose of procedure 4 is to provide for the distribution of funds to optimise the long-term benefits for the conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area. The allocation of these offset funds is not necessarily linked geographically because some potential projects that provide whole-of-tuart woodland and tall-tuart woodland conservation benefits such as research also provide conservation benefits for Ludlow tuart woodlands. (3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
(1)-(2) There is no discrepancy. The purpose of procedure 4 is to provide for the distribution of funds to optimise the long-term benefits for the conservation of tuart forest in the Ludlow area. The allocation of these offset funds is not necessarily linked geographically because some potential projects that provide whole-of-tuart woodland and tall-tuart woodland conservation benefits such as research also provide conservation benefits for Ludlow tuart woodlands. (3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
(3) I have sought advice from the Tuart Response Group, the Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, the Vasse-Wonnerup Land Conservation District Committee and the Ludlow Working Party. In determining the offset funding allocation, no particular organisation has been given priority.
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