Kerry Nettle (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That—

(a)

the Senate:

(i)

condemns the recent decision of the New South Wales State Labor Government to allow the giant Anvil Hill coal mine to proceed, and

(ii)

notes that the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources (Mr Turnbull) decided on 11 February 2007 not to assess the mine under the controlled action provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999; and

(b)

there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, no later than noon on 7 August 2007:

(i)

all documents relating to the decision not to make the Anvil Hill coal mine a controlled action under the Act, and

(ii)

any other documents held by the Department of the Environment and Water Resources in relation to the Anvil Hill coal mine.

Question negatived.