Green Offsets for Sustainable Regional Development
Final report for MBI project 16
Department of Environment and Conservation NSW
December 2005
ISBN 1 74137 408 1
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About this report
This project was part of the National Market-Based Instrument Pilots Program, under the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. The project managed salt loads to stressed rivers in the Murray-Darling Basin by undertaking pilot offsets in three areas of regional NSW where industry is expanding. The three pilot participants were:
- Ulan Coal Mine near Mudgee (Macquarie and Hunter catchments)
- Norske Skog Paper Mill in Albury (Murray catchment)
- Moree spa baths (Gwydir catchment).
These pilots also:
- added to our offset experience by providing practical testing of offsets (and the NSW Government’s offset principles1) as a way of complementing traditional regulatory approaches
- helped in the development of an Institutional Framework to integrate offsets within the existing planning, regulatory and policy framework.
The project began in August 2003 and was completed in June 2005 with the preparation of this report. However, the offset measures established under this project will be ongoing, and the NSW Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) will continue to work with each of the participants to ensure that they establish and maintain appropriate offset programs, as needed.
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