It all really boils down to…

It all really boils down to this. The changes would put the "Minister" in charge of making all decisions on the survival of a species endangered or not, without having to focus on the science. This is incredibly dangerous. Once a species is gone, it's gone. There are no "do overs" in nature. Who ever wrote these changes should actually step out of their cubicle and go spend some time in nature. If you bulldozer over a marsh with Blandings Turtles, you don't get to teleport the turtles to another location first, they die. This so dangerous.

Will the Minister be held personally responsible for the loss of a species due to an error in judgement? How much jail time will they do?

4. (C) "Provide a new transition provision for existing Endangered Species Act permit- and agreement-holders to continue to operate for twelve months following the application of new species or habitat protections while they seek amendments to their permit or agreement to address newly listed species. Currently, existing holders would, upon the species being listed and protected, need to stop their activity that impact the species or its habitat and wait for their permit or agreement to be amended."

This is just dumb. For example...A species at risk lives in a area a developer wants to turn into a shopping mall. The minister says "oh, you're right, an endangered species does inhabit that area. Well you have a year of building before we can tell you to stop. It'll take us that long to figure out if endangered turtles can live in concrete".

One year later, construction's finished but there's no endangered species left.

Minister says..."Well now that there's no more endangered critters left, I guess you can keep your shopping mall. Just put some cash into my slush fund and we'll call it even".

THAT'S NONSENSE!! Who came up with this idea?

I'm ashamed to have voted Conservative. I thought you guys had more common sense than that.