The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) and WWF-Australia have welcomed the announcement that new laws to restrict sea-dumping and port expansion in the Reef World Heritage Area will be voted on in Queensland Parliament next week.
“ We now call on all members of Parliament to support these laws to provide important new safeguards for the Great Barrier Reef, ” WWF-Australia Reef Campaigner Louise Matthiesson said.
“ Any future capital dredging proposals for Trinity Inlet must undergo a thorough environmental assessment, to make sure any impacts on the marine environment are kept to a minimum.”
AMCS Reef campaign director, Imogen Zethoven, congratulated the Queensland Government for acting on its promise to ban sea-dumping of capital dredge spoil in state waters inside the Reef World Heritage Area, and called for a redoubling of efforts to keep all the remaining promises they made to UNESCO.
Amendments to the Sustainable Ports Development Bill 2015 were unveiled yesterday in Cairns by the Queensland Government.
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