(i) to operate at
least as efficiently as any comparable businesses,
(ii) to maximise the net
worth of the State's investment in it,
(iii) to exhibit a sense of social
responsibility by having regard to the interests of the community in which it
operates,
(b) to protect the environment by conducting its operations in
compliance with the principles of ecologically sustainable development
contained in section 6 (2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration
Act 1991 ,
(c) to exhibit a sense of responsibility towards regional
development and decentralisation in the way in which it operates,
(d) to
operate efficient, safe and reliable facilities for the transmission of
electricity and other forms of energy,
(e) to promote effective access to
those transmission facilities.
(3) Without limiting
subsection (1) (b), in implementing the principal objectives set out in
subsection (1), an energy transmission operator has the special objective of
minimising the environmental impact on land of activities authorised by
easements for transmission facilities created in favour of the energy
transmission authority. In implementing this special objective, the
transmission operator is bound by all relevant laws (such as those concerning
native vegetation, soil conservation and easement management) applying at the
time.