The Law Society has backed criticism of the Government's plan to regulate deep-sea oil drilling and other potentially hazardous offshore activities as lacking adequate environmental protection and inconsistent with international law.
Parliament's local government and environment committee has been hearing submissions on the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Bill.
The bill establishes an environmental management regime for New Zealand's vast but currently unregulated Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which lies between 12 and 200 nautical miles off the coast.
NZ Herald.co.nz
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