The state's environment minister Penny Sharpe has pledged to "fix" the state's biodiversity offset scheme in the face of widespread concern that it is failing to protect endangered species and ecosystems and is riddled with integrity and transparency concerns.
It follows scathing criticism from the head of the NSW Nature Conservation Council, Jacqui Mumford, who said the use of offset credits in the approval of a $264 million gas pipeline between Killingworth and Kurri demonstrated why the current system was completely broken.
