Submissions

Conservation SA's  response and addtional comments to the Draft Tintinara Coonalypyn Water Allocation Plan.  A WAP is a legal document summarizing the rules for allocation, use and transfer of water from prescribed water courses. They are prepared under the authority of the Natural Resources Management Act 2004, which provides a listing of the prescribed waters in South Australia. WAPs are prepared by the Natural Resource Management Boards of individual areas. Each plan is then adopted by the Minister of Environment and Conservation in order to become government policy.

In our submission on the Protected Areas on Private Lands Discussion Paper, the Conservation Council of SA outlined five areas of concern about the initiative:

1. The need for support and assistance to private landowners
2. Planning for the future of pastoral land
3. The role of mining in South Australia's pastoral lands.
4. Mining on private protected areas
5. Non compliance

Click here to download a copy of the submission [PDF]

The Conservation Council of SA and the River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group put forward a joint submission on the Discussion Paper for A Proposed Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Framework for the Commonwealth Environmental Water in the Murray- Darling Basin. To download the submission, click here [PDF].

The draft fo the Cape Gantheaume Fire Management Plan recently came up for comment. The Conservation Council put forward comments on the plan, to download our comments click here [PDF].

The Conservation Council of SA put forward a submission on Australia's draft 2011 National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks (Shark-plan 2). In this submission we outlined our concern that the  sufficient focus on shark conservation measures and will therefore do little to alleviate the continued threats they currently face. To download the submission click here [PDF]

Previously we have expressed our concerns on BP conducting oil and gas exploration  in the Great Australian Bight. BP recently put the Sesimic testing up for referral under the EPBC act. The Conservation Council of SA submitted comments on this referral, you can download it here.

 

Following the site contamination at Edwardstown, Shadow Environment Minister Michelle Lensink initiated inquiry into the operation of the EPA. The Conservation Council of SA put forward a submission for the inquiry.

Our submission draws from the Blueprint referred to above and highlights five major points of concern

• Resources for the EPA
• Information Access for the community
• The Site Contamination processes of the EPA
• Providing a Voice for the Community
• Coverage of the EPA

In addition, the submission highlights a number of suggestions for improvements to the Act should legislative change to the Act be considered by the Inquiry.

 

 

In this letter, we welcome the Council's sustainability commitments in its Business Plan, but suggest that it should focus on improving safety for cyclists, educating its citizens on lowering their ecological footprint and making a transition to street trees that provide either food for local consumption or habitat for native species.

The Conservation Council of SA provided a brief response to the draft Environmental health risk assessment: Guidelines for assessing health risks from environmental hazards. The intersection between health and the environment has been identified as a key area of interest for Conservation Council SA and we are working towards developing this policy in full.

In this submission the Conservation Council of SA outlines its preliminary concerns in relation to the proposed Mullaquana Uranium Mining Project. These concerns surround the environmental risks and consequences of uraniam mining and use as a power source.

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