Traditional owners are celebrating a 'win' for a culturally significant property but there are concerns about fundamental problems with biodiversity offsetting for fossil fuel projects.
abc.net.au/news/santos-biodiversity-offset-mount-tabor-station-approvals/101885870A 5,000-hectare conservation project on an outback Queensland cattle property is expected to provide several years of biodiversity offsets to Santos's coal seam gas activities nearby.Santos's biodiversity offset project for Mount Tabor Station received final approvals this month
That work will provide biodiversity offsets to current and future disturbance related to coal seam gas activities about 100 kilometres away in the Fairview Gas Field, north of Roma.A biodiversity offset works to conserve a landscape and foster biodiversity in one area to offset environmentally destructive activities taking place somewhere else.
The property has primarily used cattle grazing as its sole income source, with the new Santos deal providing financial security and employment opportunities including First Nations ranger roles. However, Mr Kreicbergs said it represented "a significant financial and social opportunity for the Bidjara people".Experts in clean energy and offsetting schemes are concerned that biodiversity offset schemes are not operating effectively in Australia.
"But in principle, I think there are really fundamental problems with the idea that we can do harm somewhere and clean it up somewhere else if the harm that we're doing is driving biodiversity loss and climate change, which fossil fuel projects — including gas projects — do.
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