Barangaroo Remediation

Extracted from 7 News, by Caris Bizzaca:
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally is under siege from the Opposition, Greens and action groups who say the government has undermined a court case by exempting Sydney's Barangaroo site from environmental laws.
Planning minister Tony Kelly on Wednesday gazetted an order that effectively excises Barangaroo from his department's own planning laws for managing contamination, just days before the government goes into caretaker mode ahead of the state election.
The Sydney Harbour site is at the centre of a case in the Land and Environment Court being pursued by Australians for Sustainable Development (AfSD), a group concerned about contaminated subsoil.
Opposition spokesperson for planning Brad Hazzard said on Thursday it was an "abuse of process".
"The signature on the planning document may be Tony Kelly's but Kristina Keneally's fingerprints are all over it," he said in a statement.
"In September, Ms Keneally confirmed that she was, 'taking direct responsibility and control of Barangaroo' - so there's no ducking that this rotten act is all hers.
"This is an abuse of process and Kristina Keneally is in it up to her eyeballs showing that NSW Labor has no respect for the rule of law and the NSW community."
But Ms Keneally denied she was behind the order.
"This is a planning decision," she said while campaigning in Sydney.
"I am not the minister for planning."
Ms Keneally, who assumed ministerial responsibility for the $6 billion project last September, said she heard about Mr Kelly's action on Wednesday and spoke with him on Thursday morning.
She defended Mr Kelly saying he had simply made a "technical clarification".