The Bill has been introduced to accelerate major job-creating projects while maintaining Western Australia’s world-class environmental standards.
It delivers on a number of recommendations from the Independent Review of WA Environmental Approvals Processes and Procedures (Vogel-McFerran Review), which found approvals processes are overly complex, time consuming and costly — holding back projects without providing any additional environmental benefits.
This legislation follows a series of additional reforms being implemented by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation and the Environmental Protection Authority to cut green tape and improve WA’s environmental approvals processes.
Read more about this Bill in the media statement.
