Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission on the Protection of the Environment Operations Amendment (Clean Air) Bill 2021 (Bill). EDO is keenly aware of the health impacts of coal – as a consequence of both its mining and combustion – and has advised and represented many communities throughout NSW, and […]
EDO welcomes the opportunity to comment on Tasmanian Planning Policies Scoping Paper (Scoping Paper). The following submission responds to the proposed scope and structure of the TPPs. EDO thanks Jarin White and George Grover for their research and assistance in the preparation of this submission. […]
The EDO appreciates the opportunity to comment on this proposed Code Amendment which will alter policies affecting the parklands if approved. […]
The NSW Land and Environment Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the Independent Planning Commission’s (IPC) approval of the Narrabri Gas Project. Environmental Defenders Office clients, the Mullaley Gas and Pipeline Accord (MGPA), challenged the September 2020 approval of Santos’ proposed project, arguing the IPC failed to properly assess the impacts of both the project’s greenhouse gas emissions and […]
In a landmark collaborative report, EDO is urging the Queensland Government to adopt a modern framework of laws led by First Nations Lore and the latest scientific research to protect endangered Flying-foxes in the Wet Tropics Country of far north Queensland. Read the full report here. On behalf of our client the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre, the report examines the current […]
By Head of Policy and Law Reform Rachel Walmsley and Scientific Director Megan Kessler With less than one month to go until the Conference of the Parties of the UN Climate Change Convention meeting in Glasgow (COP 26), EDO looks at what the Australian Government can do in the next few weeks to ensure we are […]
The NSW Court of Appeal has today upheld the decision to refuse the Bylong Coal Project. The decision comes two years after the NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) first rejected the 6.5 million-tonnes-per-year greenfield coal mine, calling the greenhouse gas emissions from the project ‘problematical’. The Bylong Valley, near Mudgee in central western NSW, is known for its scenic […]
New South Wales Environment and Energy Minister Matt Kean has today announced there will be no appeal of last month’s landmark court ruling which found the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has a duty to take serious action on greenhouse gas emissions, signalling a major change in climate policy for the state. EDO’s case on behalf of client Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action argued that the EPA has a duty to develop policies, objectives and guidelines to regulate greenhouse […]
The Environmental Defenders Office has assisted a group of First Nations people to make a formal request for a United Nations Committee to review Western Australia’s draft proposed cultural heritage bill, arguing the bill is incompatible with Australia’s international obligations on racial discrimination. Slim Parker, Kado Muir, Dr Anne Poelina, Clayton Lewis and Dr Hannah McGlade have made a request to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the Committee) to review the Western Australian draft Aboriginal […]
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