Environment
Environment protectors limited
Mark Worley Mercury
THE Environmental Protection Authority has only one permanent staff member and will have limited scope to police the forest industry. The State Government has promised the independent EPA will have the teeth to follow-up environmental breaches by industry, including the proposed Gunns pulp mill. More than $60,000 has already been spent on television ads promoting the new body. During a Budget estimate hearing yesterday Greens MHA Nick McKim asked whether it was true that the body was simply a clone of the Environmental Management and Pollution Control board it replaced, with no investigative staff of its own. Read more here