Right now, our laws mean that there is no need for new mines to be assessed for their climate impact before being given environmental approval.
Our bill will change that.
Any projects that output between 25k-100k tonnes of emissions in a year would have to get approval from the Environment Minister, and projects that output over 100k tonnes of emissions would automatically be refused.
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