What is your understanding of the Government’s term: “Minimise impact” as refered to in the EES statement?
A6: The panel put this in a lot of their recommendations. Obviously there is no scale or qualification to this statement which is a worry. What’s more concerning is that the government added a rider to twelve of them to say “minimise where practical to do so”, or such words. This presumably comes down to nothing more than dollars, with the environment having to suffer beyond acceptable levels if they can’t afford to prevent that harm. And in this economic climate the dollars won’t be available, and the consortia will be able to say to the government, it’s XYZ or we don’t build it, the government will have no option but to give the OK.
