Australia: Legal Challenge Flagged After Feds Make Call on Salmon Farming
Conservationists have flagged their intention to mount a legal challenge against the federal government’s decision to allow salmon farming to continue in Macquarie Harbour, despite fears for the future of an endangered species endemic to the area.
Environment and Water Minister Murray Watt said on Thursday that a Commonwealth review of a 2012 decision to permit the expansion of salmon farming operations in the harbour had “confirmed” the original ruling, following amendments to national environmental legislation that passed the federal parliament in March this year, just before the election...
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