Corner:

The Environmental Impact Statement process, as far as we were concerned with the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, was totally inadequate.

Morrison:

I think it is accepted that the Environmental Impact Statement process isn't working at the moment, that a lot of community groups are very concerned about the inadequacies in the system.

Nielson:

The environmental process is frustrating the economic development of this nation.

Zines:

I don't think we should get carried away too much with whether the process is excellent or fine or whatever it is. I think we should try and look to the expediency of producing a very efficient process that doesn't hold up development.

Bathgate:

Yes, we were reasonably happy with the EIS process. I mean inescapably its pretty lengthy, its time consuming, and it consumes a lot of money. But I think in the case of a major project like this, that's inescapable.

Jones:

The purpose of EIS's is really a tool to help manage the environment and as such they are valuable in so far as they can make predictions and make recommendations as to how to evade any impacts which are predicted to be particularly damaging.

Question:

I don't know whether you want to comment on this. The Environmental Impact Statement consultants refused to appear on this video. Do you care to comment on why that might have been?

Toon:

No! laughter...