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Experts’ scathing comments about ‘independent’ Tasmanian fish farm review panel revealed – ABC News
A parliamentary inquiry was told the panel charged with reviewing the salmon industry’s expansion into Storm Bay had no legal option but to green light new developments,…
The two experts who quit the panel charged with deliberating over the Tasmanian salmon industry’s expansion have given scathing assessments of the aquaculture development approvals process, telling a parliamentary inquiry the body is not independent and has no legal option other than to ultimately green light new fish-farming developments.
Key points:
- Newly released transcripts reveal two experts blasted the Marine Farming Planning Review Panel as a “waste of taxpayers’ money”
- They said the panel…
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