NSW Environmental Legislations and their Significance for Sustainable Development

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NSW Environmental Legislations
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Environmental Protection Act (EPA)
Environmental Protection Act (EPA), is a great legal implementation of the Government of
Queensland, Australia. This is a tremendous legal step in overcoming all the challenges of
environmental pollutions such as air pollution from industries, carbon footprint maintenance, and
others (Vivoda and Fulcher, 2017, p. 6). Waste management along with the contaminated land
management system is included under the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Act
(1996), Queensland, Australia. In Australia, the Governmental framework is robust to make the
environment a pollution free system. In this aspect, there is the primary state level and territory
level authoritative body to regulate this law. The Commonwealth government is here as the
highest regulatory body to implement this act to protect the environment. According to this act,
every year environmental audit is also commenced here which is regulated primarily the local
and territory body and all of these reports, including domestic and industrial are finally reported
and regulated by the highest governmental body. In New South Wales, the environmental
protection Act is also very active. Along with Tasmania, Queensland, Victoria and many others
provinces of Australia. In a broad aspect, this environmental protection act is very much active
along with the political implications. Sometimes, states and provinces have some separate
models also where the government is also reviewing all of the articles and files of the law.
Environmental protection act is highly implemented at the Commonwealth level. It involves
commonwealth bodies. In New South Wales, this environmental legislation is modified into the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999), or EPBC Act. The
Department of Environment and Energy entirely governs all of these regulations and legal
implications (DOE). In NSW, these legal systems are highly developed and all of the persons are
hereby concerned to abide by these environmental laws where any kinds of depreciation from
this law regarding environment, land use, carbon emission or others may lead the citizens
towards imprisonment, cancellation of business licenses and the organization will be subject to
the notice issuance or others. Here all kinds of offenders, there are three divisions which are tier-

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1, tier-2 and tier-3 along with their punishment money of $1 Million for corporation offices,
$250,00 and $50,000 respectively. Commonwealth bodies are always present NSW to observe
the maintenance of the EPA. EPA is protected by local, state and highest government through
their actions of mitigation of environmental issues, and they are always present to mitigate all
environmental issues in a therapeutic method. Sometimes, public contraventions are also made
by those bodies to protect environmental pollutions. Most of the EPA implementation related
activities are performed by Non-Governmental Offices, on the other hand, this NGO's have the
power to make decisions for environmental challenges in NSW. In NSW, the Coal serum gas
challenge was a worldly concern, where NGO has performed a great deal to mitigate this issue
adequately. NSW based NGO's are highly concerned to follow EPA in every place and to
mitigate all the problems related to the land clearance, stopping the harmful emission of gasses,
water, and climate change related issues along with all the carbon footprint related issues
occurred in the mine related areas.
State environment protection and planning (SEPP)
State environment protection and planning (SEPP) is mainly implemented in Victoria, Australia
to prevent the abuses and pollution of waters. SEPP hs provided a significant step to the people
of Victoria, Australia, in this that, in Victoria, Australia, water is a scarce thing. As a result, the
sustainable utilization of water is highly crucial in Victoria. In this aspect, SEPP has provided the
blueprint of utilization procedure that what procedure of utilization can help the people to use
water for the long term in a sustainable manner. To utilize the water sustainably, the essential
thing is the socio-economic and cultural quality of peoples. Through the formation of the
blueprint of water utilization, SEPP has provided a goal post to the people of Victoria, what
should be the amount of water used, how it can be recycled and what amount should be stored
for a long time span for the future utilization. In this aspect, social awareness is highly essential
which was wholly looked after by the association of NGO. Ngo'S has made enormous
campaigning for the people awareness which makes people aware that how they can protect
waterbodies through its sustainable utilization. SEPP along with NG guidance has provided a
clear base of safety net based guidance for water utilization and not go through any kinds of
discharged material to the water body. SEPP has another crucial significance because SEPP