Total Environment Centre today called on TransGrid and the NSW Government to cancel the unnecessary $227 million Bonshaw-Tenterfield-Lismore transmission line proposal.

 The sudden cancellation by the O’Farrell government of a high-level meeting of farmers and environmentalists to review the state’s land clearing laws, on the day the Queensland government weakened its bushland clearing laws – has raised deep concerns amongst peak environment groups.

NSW's rampant urban sprawl has produced dirty air that is exposing millions of people to adverse health impacts and it could get worse if the state's new planning system panders to developers, TEC said today releasing a briefing paper.

Eight policemen threatened to arrest eight bags of Coca Cola plastic bottle litter and three mild mannered gentlemen from the respectable end of the environment movement, outside the office of Coca Cola Amatil in Sydney this morning, said TEC.

The draft Wyong Shire Local Environment Plan is an environmental disaster that gives free rein to developers to trash the Shire’s environmental heritage. It should be scrapped, the Total Environment Centre (TEC) warned today.

The NSW Government’s ’Waste Less, Recycle More’ program is a welcome big policy with significant funding, but will require additional key elements to stay afloat, Total Environment Centre said today.