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		<title>Broken Promise and Broken Toxic Chemicals Reassessment Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cost of the Government’s broken promise on highly toxic organochlorines is now clearer following ERMA’s initial reassessment of one of these chemicals. It promised more than a decade ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Import Regulations to Drive Methyl Bromide Recapture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Existing regulations on the import of methyl bromide can be used to require recapture of the chemical rather than action on this being deferred. Parliament’s Local Government and Environment Select [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MFE Provides &#8220;Back Door&#8221; Approvals for Toxic Substances</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 02:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry for the Environment (MFE) has engineered what is essentially a one-way gate for existing toxic substances &#8211; free entry for all and huge barriers to removing any single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contaminated Land—Pass the Parcel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2005 03:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A massive transfer of liability to innocent parties is set to take place unless Government puts new measures in place to fund cleanup of contaminated sites. MFE estimates that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innocent Property Owners Set to Pay for Contamination Cleanups</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2005 02:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry for the Environment (MFE) is paving the way for property owners to be forced to pay for the cleanup of contamination that they did not know about when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HSNO (Approvals and Enforcement) Amendment Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 00:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submission to the Education and Science Select Committee with respect to HSNO (Approvals and Enforcement) Amendment Bill. Read the document here.]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Accountability for Hazardous Substances</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 03:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixteen years after Government first determined to bring together coherent regulations for hazardous substances, effective financial accountability for harm caused by these substances remains limited.  While Government has committed to the “polluter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Risk of Massive Transfer of Liability for Contaminated Land Clean-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 02:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A massive transfer of liability to innocent parties is set to take place unless Government puts new measures in place to fund cleanup of contaminated sites. MFE estimates that the [...]]]></description>
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