ENVIRONMENT

Tasmanian parrot used to threaten Boggabri, coal industry

GREEN groups are calling for “action” from environment minister Tanya Plibersek because several Swift Parrots have been detected, by Idemitsu Australia, near its Boggabri open cut coal mine near Narrabri in New South Wales.

A juvenile Swift Parrot.

A juvenile Swift Parrot.

The groups are calling for Plibersek to rewrite the conditions around Boggabri's mining approvals and also use the review of the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act to restrict...

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