Clean energy projects are being approved at twice the rate of previous years after federal action to speed up decisions in the hope of adding more wind farms and solar projects to the electricity grid.
Applications for new projects have also jumped from 64 to 95 since the federal election last May, according to a federal list of renewable energy projects ranging from small solar farms to the mammoth Star of the South wind project to be built on the Gippsland coast.
Plibersek has been criticised by the Greens on the government’s support for energy projects, including 116 coal seam gas wells in Queensland, which she approved in February as part of an existing Santos project in the Surat Basin.
“We’re reforming our laws to deliver even clearer, faster decisions while better protecting our environment too,” said Plibersek. Environmental groups gave a positive response to the draft EPBC overhaul last December but Greens environment spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young is pushing for a “climate trigger” to ensure fossil fuel projects can be blocked when their carbon emissions are considered as part of the approvals process.
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