EDO
ACT Newsletter
Latest
newsletter - November 2006
1.
Major Amendments to Federal Environmental Law
2. EDO ACT Update on EPBC Amendments
3. ACT News – Planning
and Development Bill moves one step closer, Report released.
4.
ACT News - Climate Change - ACT Strategy to go to Cabinet in December
5 . Climate Change News: Reaction
to the Stern Report – WebGuide
6 . Recent Publications
and Grants Available
7 . Jobs and Scholarships: including
Position Vacant – Solicitor EDO ACT
8 . EDO wins grant from Australian Ethical Ltd
August
2006
* Planning
system reforms - big changes planned - your input is vital !
* EDO Submission pans suspect Dragway
Noise Policy
*
The sad, silent death of the Planning
and Land Council
* Public Participation legislation remains under consideration
* EDO ACT wins Environment grant
* Companies lose rights to sue
for defamation in the ACT
* Biodiversity Banking Bill tabled
in NSW Parliament - A disaster in the making?
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2006) (HTML)
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Past
newsletters archive
September
2005 (PDF file)
June
2005 (PDF file)
Contains
reports on
* Land Act review
* Attempts to intimidate environmental activists in the Deep South
Coast
Recent environmental law case reports including:
* Wielangta Forests litigation update
* Illegal Logging Finding in Victorian Supreme Court
* Whaling Litigation in the Federal Court
* Successful NSW EPA pollution litigation
* EDO WA unsuccessful in its attempt to stop development of Coogee
Beach
* SA Whyalla Red Dust litigation update
January
2005 (PDF file)
Contents
include:
Litigation
News
- Queensland Grazier facing jail over vegetation clearance
- Planning Panel Obliged to Consider Greenhouse Implications of
Extension of Operation of Coal Fired Power Station
- South Australian Decision about Standing : Whyalla Red Dust Action
Group Inc v Onesteel Manufacturing Pty Ltd [2004] SAERDC 112
- EDO (NSW) Victory regarding Coastal Over-development
- EDO (Victoria) Victory about native vegetation clearance
- Cuts and Changes at NSW EPA Bite: Pollution Prosecutions in NSW
Plunge by Two-Thirds
Other News
- Government Sets Up Inquiry into Summernats
Legislation News
- ACT Greenhouse Abatement Scheme Commences (11 January 2005)
- New laws address water recycling problems
- Tree Protection Bill 2004
- Heritage Act 2004
- Electricity (Greenhouse Gas Emissions) Act 2004
- Building Act 2004 (ACT)
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