NSW Bans Coastal Seabed Petroleum and Mineral Mining

Sharpe trumpeted the Labor government’s innovation of the ban saying, ‘No other state or territory has acted so comprehensively.’
NSW Bans Coastal Seabed Petroleum and Mineral Mining
The Atwood Osprey semi-submersible drilling rig offshore Australia on Sep. 29, 2011. AAP Image/Clarity Communications
Jim Birchall
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New South Wales will become the first state in Australia to ban deep-sea petroleum and mineral mining off the coast after the government amended the state’s Environmental Act.

Jim Birchall
Jim Birchall
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Jim Birchall has written and edited for several regional New Zealand publications. He was most recently the editor of the Hauraki Coromandel Post.
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