February 18, 2021
Environment Minister Romauld Ferreira.
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Stronger shipping waste regulations ‘ready to go’
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Minister: We stopped developer ‘free for all’
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Ferreira briefs media on law to protect resources
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Minister ‘not sympathetic’ to BPC licence renewals
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BPC deal had govt over a barrel
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