{"id":53254,"date":"2025-08-08T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53254\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:07:49","slug":"bottlenecks-in-renewable-project-approvals-show-need-for-environmental-law-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53254\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottlenecks in renewable project approvals show need for environmental law reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not one of the 76 renewables projects needing federal environmental assessment in NSW, Victoria or Queensland in 2023 or 2024 has received final approval, as \u201cgreen tape\u201d regulation continues to undermine Labor\u2019s clean energy and productivity agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis prepared by top-tier law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer showed 27 projects in 2023 and 49 projects in 2024 were deemed \u201ccontrolled actions\u201d needing the tick of approval under the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. As of last Thursday, none have received the final go-ahead, the law firm said.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not one of the 76 renewables projects needing federal environmental assessment in NSW, Victoria or Queensland in 2023&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-53254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}