Port Waratah Coal Services Terminal 4 - Newcastle

Doctors for the Environment Australia recognises that an EIS is an important document from the point of view of public health and regrets that the T4 statement is very user unfriendly. Since health is..... 

Submission to The Environment and Communications Legislation Committee

Road Safety Amendment (Car Doors) Bill 2012

The Environment and Communications Legislation Committee

DEA welcomes the Government’s decision to appoint an interim committee of experts to provide independent scientific advice on coal seam gas and coal mining. Impacts of these industries on water resources are of concern to both the public and the scientific community. However...

Submission on the Murray Darling Basin Plan

Summary:  Coal seam gas (CSG) mining in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) catchment should be prohibited on the basis of its prodigious usage of ground water and the potential for contamination of food production and for the risk of long term human health impacts. The increase in overall groundwater usage will lead to reduction in the already inadequate environmental flows and cannot be supported. Environmental flow and a healthy river is the ultimate human health support system............

Draft Energy White Paper Submission

Though the EWP sets out to address the legitimate aims of reducing emissions through “clean” energy, ensuring energy security and facilitating economic development, it repeatedly makes a series of assertions and assumptions that are contradictory.

Submission on the Draft Australian Dietary Guidelines

DEA is concerned about the environment and effects of human activity on environmental and ecological function. Our concern is grounded in the necessity of a well functioning environment for human health and wellbeing. 

VCAT - Dual Gas/Morwell: Final Submission from DEA

Dual Gas Pty Ltd: VCAT Hearing Information VCAT announced on 17 August 2011, that the hearing of six applications for review of EPA’s decision in relation to works approval no. WA67043 will commence on Monday 24 October 2011.

• Hearing web page - VCAT

Submission on “Regulated Trees Amendment”

In SA an amendment on Regulated Trees to help development has lead to a spate of removals of mature trees by residents in Adelaide and suburbs who worry about leaves in their gutters. This submission from DEA points out some of the health benefits of such trees.

Waratah Coal’s proposed Galilee Coal Project (Northern Export Facility)  (also known as China First

This EIS fails to assess the human health impacts adequately. The project will have impacts causing air pollution, increase of greenhouse emissions, damage to biodiversity and ecological services and impacts on surface and ground water. All are health issues which are of increasing importance in the context of global environmental change.

• Environmental Impact Statement

Submission on the Environmental Impact Statement - Kevin’s Corner Project

Human health interests in the widest sense should always have priority in the deliberations on major projects. This should be the case in spite of short term financial gain, as negative health and social impacts are potentially long-lasting and highly significant.  Read the full DEA submission