For months Forest & Bird kept the pressure on the coalition Government to release the projects destined for automatic fast tracking through Schedule 2 of the bill.
A new sweeping fast-track approvals bill being tabled in parliament today is anti-nature, anti-democracy, and will leave a mess for future governments to clean up, says Forest & Bird.
A long-running court battle against a new opencast coal mine has been abandoned by the mining company today, but environmentalists are putting celebrations on hold.
