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The raising of the Warragamba Dam wall will save properties on the western Sydney floodplains, but at what cost? - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The raising of the Warragamba Dam wall will save properties on the western Sydney floodplains, but at what cost? - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Development should stop : serious flaws in offsets plan for new western Sydney airport

There are serious flaws in the environmental offsets being used to compensate for the new western Sydney airport now under construction in Badgerys Creek, a Guardian Australia investigation has found. All up, 1,780ha of bushland will be razed to make way for the new travel hub – an area bigger than the Adelaide CBD. In theory, offsets allow developers to compensate for the damage they cause in one area by undertaking work to deliver an equivalent or greater environmental benefit in another. But the site chosen by the federal government to offset the airport is an example of what’s known by experts as “double-dipping” – it had already been earmarked for permanent environmental protection. There will be no new conservation reserves created in western Sydney to compensate for the damage caused by the massive new development.

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