The Northern Territory government has failed to regulate a nascent cotton industry and is 'turning a blind eye' to unpermitted land clearing, according to a federal senator who is calling for an urgent inquiry.
Speaking on ABC Radio Darwin on Thursday morning, Acting Chief Minister Nicole Manison said the government was regulating the industry sustainably and she rejected the notion that federal intervention was needed."Do we have mass issues here that require a federal inquiry? Absolutely not.
"We have to have laws that actually ensure that we're protecting this incredible continent and getting the right balance by using available land for agriculture, but not continuing to clear land unnecessarily," he said. However, according to Kelly O'Shanassy, the chief executive of the Australian Conservation Foundation, land clearing is "running rampant" in Australia, with most of it occurring in the north.
"Our national environment laws are also weak, they're so weak that you can drive a bulldozer through them," she said.
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