Crocodile conservationist Bob Irwin is urging the Queensland Government to close a legal loophole that allows social media users to get away with recklessly entering croc habitat for content – endangering themselves and the crocodiles. Mr Irwin has engaged the Environmental Defenders Office to draw up amendments to the Nature Conservation Act 1992 after a […]
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By Frances Medlock, Commonwealth & Government Liaison Solicitor With the passing of the Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Bill 2023 (the Bill) through the Federal Parliament on 30 March 2023, Australia has a new emissions reduction regime for large industrial emitters. For the first time, this includes a limit on gross emissions, and a requirement that […]
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By Kirsty Ruddock, Managing Lawyer, Safe Climate – Corporate and Clare Saunders, Solicitor, Safe Climate – Corporate. In August 2022, EDO wrote on behalf of HESTA members, Rod and Sue Campbell-Ross about whether HESTA is misleading members by claiming to be Paris aligned despite continuing to invest in Woodside and Santos. EDO also wrote to […]
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The Queensland Government has refused Clive Palmer’s Galilee Coal Project following the recommendation of the Queensland Land Court late last year. [1] [2] “Environmental Defenders Office clients Youth Verdict and the Bimblebox Alliance brought an historic legal challenge to the massive new fossil fuel project on human rights, climate and nature grounds and won,” Senior […]
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The issue Tasmania’s beautiful coastal waters are home to some of our most distinctive wildlife —like the Maugean Skate and Spotted Handfish. But the fragile marine ecosystems they call home are under threat from industrial salmon farming. Instead of placing clear limits on pollution from salmon farming, the Tasmanian Government is planning to wind back […]
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EDO’s submission to the Safeguard Mechanism reform: consultation on proposed design by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, should be read in tandem with EDO’s submission to the Senate Standing Committee. As stated in that submission, while the bulk of the Safeguard Mechanism will reside in subordinate legislation, strong drafting of […]
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This submission is to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications inquiry into the Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Bill 2022. It follows EDO’s previous submissions on the changes to the Safeguard Mechanism. EDO’s recommendations focus on restricting facilities’ use of offsets to comply with the Safeguard Mechanism, disfavouring new entrants that are advantaged by […]
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It’s been 5 years since new laws for biodiversity conservation and native vegetation clearing were introduced in NSW. It is time to ask – are those laws working to protect biodiversity and appropriately regulate land clearing? In the last 5 years we have seen species added to our threatened lists; a significant increase in rural […]
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The Tasmania Government’s draft environmental standards for finfish farming would weaken already inadequate environmental standards and put Tasmania’s prized coastal waters and marine wildlife at greater risk. Marine scientists, policy specialists and the Environmental Defenders Office are all urging the government to discard the draft standards, go back to the drawing board. Public submissions on […]
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The quantum of fines imposed this week for the theft of almost 2GL of water from the Darling River is disappointing and points to shortcomings in the regulation of water resources in NSW. [1] The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) welcomes the prosecution of water theft but questions the effectiveness of a regulatory regime that results […]
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