Australia's largest renewable energy project passed its final test in the planning approval process on Tuesday, with the federal Environment Department approving its Environmental Impact Statement | micksfoley
Environment Minister Sussan Ley said conditions placed on the project would protect environmental assets, including native fish.
Snowy Hydro must invest almost $100 million in biodiversity and environmental works, including an offset fund of up to $73.8m through the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to protect threatened species.in protest against the project, which he said risked the survival of a critically endangered native fish species, the stocky galaxias, by transferring an invasive species into its habitat.
"Never before has millions of tonnes of contaminated waste been dumped in a National Park, pest fish and diseases spread across the headwaters of the Murray, Snowy and Murrumbidgee river systems, a critically-endangered species been driven into extinction or hundreds of hectares of threatened species habitat destroyed in a National Heritage listed place," he said.
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