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A community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law.

Our Mission is to empower the community to protect the environment through law.

The information contained on this website is provided to educate and inform the community. 

 
EDOSA 2010 Seminar

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Presentations now available
 
E-Bulletin 28 July 2010

IN THIS BULLETIN:

NOTICES

Commonwealth

- Goolwa channel regulators - request for reconsideration of an EPBC Act referral decision

South Australia

- Murray and Mallee Region Plan - Draft Consultation

CASES

South Australia

-   Oil discharge leads to the highest fine ever under the Environment Protection Act 1993

-   Supreme Court challenge to Gawler Racecourse retail development

-  $150,000 civil penalty for illegal waste dumping

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PROPOSED EXPANSION OF THE OLYMPIC DAM MINE – Comment on Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Click here to read the EDO submission

 

WHO MAKES THE DECISIONS ON THIS PROJECT?

  • Cth Minister for the Environment ( under the Environment Protection & Biodiversity Conservation Act - EPBC Act )
  • SA Minister for Mineral Resources Development ( under the Roxby Downs Indenture Act )
  • SA Minister for Urban Development and Planning  ( under the Development Act ) - currently SA Minister for Mineral Resource Development
  • NT Transport and Infrastructure Minister ( under the Darwin Port Corporation Act )

 

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Latest Issue of GreenLaw April 2010

Featuring:

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  • Copenhagen Summit
  • Win for Beverley protestors
  • Murray-Darling Basin Plan
  • Sustaining Water Workshop
  • Consultation on draft NRM Review Bill

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Read more...
 
Latest Submissions

Draft Rules in the Environment, Resources & Development Court

Representative Actions in the Environment, Resources & Development Court

Proposed extension to the operation of the regulators in the Coorong, Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert

Solar feed-in tariff review

Water for Good: Water Industry Act Discussion Paper

Development of Sustainable Diversion Limits for the Murray-Darling Basin

Draft Guidelines for Environment Impact Statement South Australian Department for Environment and Heritage/Water Management and Use/Goolwa Channel/Sa/Goolwa Channel Water Level Management Project


 

 

 

 

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