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| Minister gets green watchdog plan | Minister gets green watchdog plan |
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| Proposals for a new independent pollution watchdog with tough policing powers are being handed to Environment Minister Arlene Foster. | |
| Conservationists have welcomed plans to set up an environmental protection agency, but farmers fear more red tape. | Conservationists have welcomed plans to set up an environmental protection agency, but farmers fear more red tape. |
| The review recommends the return to the DoE of planning policy. It suggests that the new watchdog would have powers to challenge planning decisions. | The review recommends the return to the DoE of planning policy. It suggests that the new watchdog would have powers to challenge planning decisions. |
| But with hundreds of jobs involved, the executive will not rush its decision. | But with hundreds of jobs involved, the executive will not rush its decision. |
| Kenneth Sharkey, president of the Ulster Farmers' Union, said the move would complicate matters. | |
| "We have a problem with adding additional layers of bureaucracy into the system, additional layers of cost and an overlap of somebody else doing a job that has already being done," he said. |