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Caring For Our Marine And Coastal Environment miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
VIC Premier
Victoria’s unique and precious marine and coastal environments will be further protected by a new strategy released today for consultation by the Andrews Labor Government.
Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Lily D’Ambrosio launched the draft
Marine and Coastal Strategy, which will guide how the state’s marine and coastal environments are managed into the future.
The strategy aims to improve coastal habitats and help coastal communities prepare and adapt to the impacts of climate change. It will guide sustainable use and development and help identify the resources and funding needed to sustainably manage the environment.
The first attempt
was in 2005. At the time, the hazard lines were deferred in
order to first develop a wider Coastal Strategy which was
finalised in 2006. Although this strategy discusses hazards
management, it does not identify any hazard lines.
The
second attempt was in 2012. This time, Council placed 50 and
100-year hazard lines on 1800 properties on the coast by way
of the Land Information Memorandum (LIM). In addition,
Council introduced the policy of managed retreat,
threatening to withdraw water, stormwater and sewerage
services from the 1800 homes even before their land or
buildings would suffer damage. Moreover, Council were
developing rules and restrictions around the hazard lines