QRC welcomes EPOLA Bill

The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has welcomed the introduction of the Environmental Protection and Other Legislation Amendment (EPOLA) Bill to the Queensland Parliament.

The reforms proposed by the EPOLA bill will provide greater certainty for the community and industry, including a proposed change that would give the regulator power to end an environmental impact statement (EIS) process where the proposal was clearly unacceptable and would be unlikely to gain approvals or contravenes laws, as is.