Environmental Umbrella Body Opens for Work Today; NATURE BODIES MERGE TO FORM NATURAL RESOURCES WALES
Byline: ANTONY STONE newsdesk@walesonline.co.uk
A SWATHE of Welsh public bodies disappeared today as a single new environmental champion with sweeping powers replaced them.
From today The Countryside Council for Wales, Environment Agency Wales and the Forestry Commission in Wales have all been merged into a new organisation called Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
Natural Resources Wales is one of the first public bodies in the world able to take in such a wide sweep of concerns.
Its responsibilities will cover a huge range of areas from regulating nuclear power stations to issuing recreational fishing licences.
Its creation has provoked significant controversy since it was approved in November 2011, amid …
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Article title: Environmental Umbrella Body Opens for Work Today; NATURE BODIES MERGE TO FORM NATURAL RESOURCES WALES.
Contributors: Not available.
Newspaper title: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales).
Publication date: April 1, 2013.
Page number: 4.
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