❓ Mr Tallentire questions the Minister for Environment on the use of the Environmental Protection Act for the strategic assessment of the Perth and Peel Green Growth Plan. The Minister confirms the assessment is being conducted under the EPBC Act, not the state's Environmental Protection Act.
AnsweredQoN 284Legislative Assembly
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PERTH AND PEEL GREEN GROWTH PLAN FOR 3.5 MILLION —
STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT
284. Mr C.J. TALLENTIRE to the Minister for Environment:
I refer to the Perth and Peel Green
Growth Plan for 3.5 million and the strategic assessment that is to be
conducted under the Environmental Protection Act. Is it the minister's
intention to use the Environmental Protection Act part IV environmental impact
assessment provisions to conduct the assessment of the plan; and, if not, why
not?
STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT
284. Mr C.J. TALLENTIRE to the Minister for Environment:
I refer to the Perth and Peel Green
Growth Plan for 3.5 million and the strategic assessment that is to be
conducted under the Environmental Protection Act. Is it the minister's
intention to use the Environmental Protection Act part IV environmental impact
assessment provisions to conduct the assessment of the plan; and, if not, why
not?
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I thank the member for Gosnells for
the question. In beginning my answer, I acknowledge representatives from Quinns
Mindarie Surf Life Saving Club who have joined us in the Speaker's
gallery today.
It is good to know that emails from
my office to Mr Verstegen make it to the member for Gosnells within the first
24 hours. That is nice for me to be well aware of, but anyway I take the point.
The green growth plan is an ambitious program from this government and
something that we have put —
Mr
D.J. Kelly interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Bassendean, I call you to order for the third time. I think
that you would like to be here at two o'clock so I advise you to relax
for the next seven minutes.
Mr
A.P. JACOB : The strategic assessment of the Perth and Peel region or the
green growth plan is a plan into which this government has put five years of
work. The plan seeks to address the environmental challenges that the Perth and
Peel region face at a high-level end right across the region and creates some
170 000 hectares of extra conservation estate within the Perth and Peel region.
This plan will create the largest metropolitan conservation estate of any city
anywhere in the world and although I am happy to cop criticism from members
opposite, I have not yet heard a single alternative. This government is taking
seriously the environmental challenges of the Perth and Peel region.
I will get into the nuts and bolts of how it works. It is not
only a bold conservation plan, but it is in the first instance. This is the
boldest ever conservation plan of any government in any capital city in
Australia. The functional side of it is the vehicle of environmental impact
assessment. In the first instance, that is being followed through the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. Yes, it is a strategic
assessment through the EPBC act. The Environmental Protection Authority has
released section 16(e) advice that pertains to the green growth plan, but the
strategic assessment is through part 10 of the EPBC act.
the question. In beginning my answer, I acknowledge representatives from Quinns
Mindarie Surf Life Saving Club who have joined us in the Speaker's
gallery today.
It is good to know that emails from
my office to Mr Verstegen make it to the member for Gosnells within the first
24 hours. That is nice for me to be well aware of, but anyway I take the point.
The green growth plan is an ambitious program from this government and
something that we have put —
Mr
D.J. Kelly interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Bassendean, I call you to order for the third time. I think
that you would like to be here at two o'clock so I advise you to relax
for the next seven minutes.
Mr
A.P. JACOB : The strategic assessment of the Perth and Peel region or the
green growth plan is a plan into which this government has put five years of
work. The plan seeks to address the environmental challenges that the Perth and
Peel region face at a high-level end right across the region and creates some
170 000 hectares of extra conservation estate within the Perth and Peel region.
This plan will create the largest metropolitan conservation estate of any city
anywhere in the world and although I am happy to cop criticism from members
opposite, I have not yet heard a single alternative. This government is taking
seriously the environmental challenges of the Perth and Peel region.
I will get into the nuts and bolts of how it works. It is not
only a bold conservation plan, but it is in the first instance. This is the
boldest ever conservation plan of any government in any capital city in
Australia. The functional side of it is the vehicle of environmental impact
assessment. In the first instance, that is being followed through the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. Yes, it is a strategic
assessment through the EPBC act. The Environmental Protection Authority has
released section 16(e) advice that pertains to the green growth plan, but the
strategic assessment is through part 10 of the EPBC act.
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