The World Heritage mission is urging curbs on development along the Great Barrier Reef coast. Source: Herald Sun
A WORLD Heritage mission wants tough new environmental conditions placed on coal and gas port expansion applications, pending the outcome of a strategic review into the combined threat they pose to the Great Barrier Reef.
Developers could be forced to accept new "precautionary" environmental rules or withdraw their applications and resubmit them when the strategic review has been completed in 18 months.
The co-ordinator of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre's marine program, Fanny Douvere, yesterday declared that the Great Barrier Reef, one of the world's most important environmental assets, was "at a crossroads".
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