Workshops

Workshops

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Free Environmental Law Workshops –

Between February and June 2008, EDO Qld and EDO NQ travelled to 18 regional areas to conduct free environmental law workshops.

Hundreds of community members attended to learn how they could have a voice in environmental planning and protection. EDO solicitors spoke about public rights to participate in urban development and planning, nature conservation, coastal and vegetation protection, mining, pollution, federal environmental laws and many other issues.

Information sheets from these workshops are available on our Fact Sheets page.

Our thanks to the Legal Practitioners’ Interest on Trust Accounts Fund for granting EDO the funds to conduct these workshops throughout Queensland, in conjunction with local environment groups.

EDO will be conducting a more regular workshop program to help communities in their ongoing environmental campaigns.

Contact EDO Qld if you have more than 15 people in your area who would like to learn about their rights to use the law to protect the environment.

EDO Solicitor Larissa Waters addressed the April 2008 THECA Forum on Biodiversity under Climate Change. To read the full paper click here. The slide show summary is here.

EDO solicitors spoke at Woodford Festival's Greenhouse Tent in December 2006. To view our presentation Damn Those Dams, about the laws regulating dams and campaign tips, click here.

EDO gave a briefing on vegetation clearing laws in November 2006. View the handout here.

EDO spoke about biodiversity protection laws at a conservation workshop in October 2006. View the handout here.

A briefing on the SEQ Regional Plan was held in August 2005. To read the papers, click here.

EDO ran 8 workshops during February 2005 on the draft SEQ Regional Plan in partnerships with regional environmental councils. Click here for details.