Environment and Infrastructure Legislation Amendment (Stop Adani) Bill 2017 [2017] AUSStaCSBSD 217 (21 June 2017)

• Environment and Infrastructure Legislation Amendment (Stop Adani) Bill 2017

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Environment and Infrastructure Legislation Amendment (Stop Adani) Bill 2017

Purpose	This bill seeks to amend the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 to ensure that: • the Commonwealth government cannot contribute funding to a railway relating to the proposed Adani coal mine via the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility by creating a broad 'suitable person' test under the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016 • environmental history, including overseas environmental history, must always be considered when approvals are given, varied, suspended, revoked or transferred; and • an automatic review is conducted of Adani’s existing environmental approvals
Sponsor	Senator Larissa Waters
Introduced	Senate on 15 June 2017

The committee has no comment on this bill.