Exclusive: legal concerns over plan to roll over forestry agreements without reviews
by Gregg Borschmann from Environment | The Guardian on (#3JP6B)
Documents reveal government plans to extend RFAs without fresh environmental or scientific reviews
Federal and state ministers have discussed legal concerns that imminent extensions to logging agreements might be invalid as they are based on old scientific assessments.
Commonwealth and state concerns about the "legal and political risks" to the regional forest agreement extensions that are about to be agreed are highlighted in a collection of 10 documents - including briefing notes and "contentious issues briefs" - prepared for the New South Wales primary industries minister, Niall Blair, and the state's lands and forestry minister, Paul Toole, and obtained by Guardian Australia.
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