AEBN prepared this submission after receiving advice from the NSW Shadow Minister for the Environment Peta Seaton the Bill had been tabled in Parliament in November without consultation. The Bill, which is now an Act greatly strengthens the POEO Act economic measures.
Briefly the Act permits the EPA to make regulations which establish Tradeable Emission Schemes, trade in their own scheme and impose penalties including suspension of parties in trading in the scheme.
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