August 26, 2020 - AGL and APA are seeking approval for the building of an LNG import facility and pipeline in Western Port, Victoria. The area is environmentally sensitive, in the middle of a ...
Submissions
Every day we are lobbying government and industry to protect health through care of the environment.
Below is some of our current advocacy work.
Resources Sector Regulation draft report (20 Aug 2020)
August 20, 2020 - DEA recently provided input into the Productivity Commission’s Draft Report on Resources Sector Regulation as regulation of this sector has the task of balancing economic gains from extraction with losses ...
EPBC Review Interim Report _ DEA Response (28 July 2020)
July 28, 2020 - On Monday July 20, the interim report of the EPBC Act review was released by Professor Graeme Samuel, the chair of the review panel. This included some positive proposals, but ...
Supplementary Submission to Narrabri Gas Project (22 July 2020)
July 24, 2020 - DEA strongly opposes the Narrabri Gas Project and submitted its first submission to object to the Narrabri Gas Project in 2017. This supplementary submission addresses the inadequacies and deficiencies in ...
Submission to the NSW Independent Planning Commission regarding the Vickery Extension Project
July 15, 2020 - It is the position of DEA that ongoing coal mining and combustion poses an unacceptable health risk due to greenhouse gas emissions. DEA is one of many health and medical ...
Submission on Urannah dam and pipelines project and Collinsville irrigation scheme project (14 July 2020)
July 14, 2020 - DEA has provided a submission on the Proposed Actions 2020/8708 and 2020/8709 . DEA recommends that both actions be assessed under the EPBC Act as they are likely to have ...
Submission on Urannah dam and pipelines project and Collinsville irrigation scheme project
July 14, 2020 - DEA has provided a submission on the Proposed Actions 2020/8708 and 2020/8709 . DEA recommends that both actions be assessed under the EPBC Act as they are likely to have ...
Submission: Australia’s Technology Investment Roadmap
June 30, 2020 - The Australian Government invited brief commentary on their Technology Roadmap to guide investment in energy generation over the next few decades. One key concept in this Roadmap is the notion ...
Submission to the Issues Paper on Health Arrangements in Natural Disasters – Bushfires Royal Commission
June 25, 2020 - The Royal Commission on the 2019-20 summer bushfires released an Issues Paper in May, specifically addressing the health care arrangements of natural disasters. DEA’s submission calls for a national health ...
Lessons to be learnt in relation to the Australian bushfire season 2019-20
May 22, 2020 - DEA has provided a submission to the Senate inquiry, Lessons to be Learnt in relation to the 2019-20 bushfire season. DEA recommendations include the need for more research into the ...
Submission into the 2019-2020 Independent Review of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act
May 13, 2020 - DEA believes that the flaws in the EPBC Act are too significant to be addressed by amendments alone. A new generation of environmental law is needed to restore past damage ...
Royal Commission into National Disaster Arrangements (Bushfires Royal Commission) April 2020.
April 29, 2020 - The health impacts of last summer’s devastating bushfire season are serious, complex and wide-ranging and health is integral to making decisions about emergency and disaster responses. More research is needed to ...
Submission on the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment Bill 2020 (March 2020)
March 30, 2020 - DEA strongly supports the inclusion of downstream or Scope 3 emissions (Appendix 1) in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting. The health impacts of GHG emissions are not limited by international borders ...
Independent Review into SA’s 2019-20 Bushfire Season
March 20, 2020 - DEA highlighted the serious omissions of consideration of neither health nor climate change in the review. DEA recommendations include the acknowledgment of the ongoing impact of climate change on bushfires, ...
Submission to the NSW Planning Department on the expansion of the Glendell mine in the Hunter Valley.
February 20, 2020 - The Hunter Valley already has the worst PM10* air pollution in New South Wales. DEA considers that the Glendell expansion proposal is not in the national or local community interest ...
Submission to NSW Legislative Council Inquiry into the costs for remediation of sites containing coal ash repositories
February 20, 2020 - The process of coal combustion leads to a concentration of trace elements in the resulting waste ash. While exposure to the traces of these elements in nature does not usually ...
Victoria’s new environmental laws submission (February 2020)
February 7, 2020 - This submission focuses primarily upon aspects of the new EP laws as they relate to air pollution and climate change, as these are closely related to DEA policy and expertise. ...
Open flued gas space heaters discussion paper submission (February 2020)
February 7, 2020 - Gas is often regarded as a ‘clean’ fuel, but air pollutants released from the combustion of methane indoors can cause or exacerbate illness involving the heart, lungs brain or nervous ...
Submission on Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Territorial Limits) Bill 2019 (February 2020)
February 5, 2020 - DEA objects to the proposed Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Territorial Limits) Bill 2019. Eliminating assessment of downstream or Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions from major projects in New South ...
Submission to Application for a RIDA for Acland Coal Stage 3 Project
January 23, 2020 - While Australia burns as part of the climate crisis, the State of Queensland continues its fervent quest to develop more coal. This is the sixth submission written on New Hope Coal ...