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MARINE POLICY
Volume 38, Issue -, Pages 500-506Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2012.08.005
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Environmental Impact Assessment; Seawater desalination; Marine conservation; Operating licence; South Australia
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This work tests the robustness of policies and procedures designed to protect South Australia's marine environment through a case study of the Adelaide Desalination Plant-the most expensive (similar to A$1.8 billion) infrastructure project in South Australia's history. Although this project has been subject to an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)-the highest level of assessment in Australia-on inspection it appears that the current operating licence for the desalination brine discharge breaches Government approval conditions and ignores the collective expert scientific advice of the project's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Hence, the EIA process in South Australia for this project is flawed. Improvements could be made to the South Australian system by including the requirements for operating licences as an integral part of the EIA. Crown Copyright (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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