ALCA’s submission builds on our earlier submission to the Review of Queensland’s Environmental Offset Framework.
The key recommendations from that submission that should be applied throughout the Bill are as follows:
- Offsets must be ‘like for like’ or better
- Financial settlement offsets should only be allowed if there are reasonably deliverable by Government
- Financial settlement offsets are only to be used as a last resort (excepting low-monetary value offsets)
- Long-term (99 years +) or in-perpetuity protection be applied to all on-ground offsets
Whilst adhering to the principles above:
- Ensure that that offsets delivered via the Offsets Account can include the acquisition (and contribution to acquisition) of land for conservation
ALCA's submission also provides detail on amendments to the legislative text of the Bill.
