Holly asked: At face value this looks a lot like the dumped amendment from the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment (Safety and Other Measures) Act 2024, is it basically the same thing?

Greg Jericho looked into it and says:

This is a very good pick up, Holly.

Having a read of those bits in the OPGGS Bill that got kicked out, it was about the Minister  for Resources being able to override the Minister for the Environment for setting approvals rules including First Nations consultation for offshore gas projects; this appears to be essentially saying the Minister for the Environment can ignore the EPBC Act if they think the Minister for Resources in approving a project under the OPGGS Bill has already provided the same protection as the EPBC Act.  

So, it does thus feel a little bit of a backdoor way of getting the same thing of giving precedence to the Resources Minister.