With bold legal action, brave clients and your incredible support, together we’ve notched up tremendous wins for nature in 2022. Groundbreaking cases take thousands of hours of legal and scientific work to win. These victories are only possible with the support of people like you who help enforce the law and defend our wildlife, culture, […]
By EDO Managing Lawyer Kirsty Ruddock & Senior Solicitor Zoe Bush Last year, the EDO on behalf of its client, the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, brought a world-first case against Santos Limited for its allegedly misleading net zero emissions claim. [1] While expanding its fossil fuel production, Santos claimed it had a credible plan […]
Meet the two climate-impacted Knitting Nannas using the law to protect our democratic freedoms in NSW Following four years of devastating disasters and government inaction on climate change, two women from the flood and fire-ravaged NSW mid-north coast have launched a Constitutional challenge to NSW’s new anti-protest laws. The EDO recognises and pays respect to […]
The cultural heritage of First Nations has not been adequately recognised, respected or protected by western law since Europeans arrived and the western laws today are still failing to provide necessary respect to First Nations and protection of their cultural heritage. This failure is a breach of our international law obligations, including under the United […]
EDO lawyers are heading to Court this week, September 7 – 9, for a hearing over the legal challenge to the approval of the Territory’s largest ever groundwater licence. Our client, the Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC), launched judicial review proceedings in the NT Supreme Court in February 2022 to challenge the decision by the […]
Youth Verdict and The Bimblebox Alliance’s epic human rights, nature and climate legal challenge to Clive Palmer’s proposed Galilee Coal Project has begun. Over six weeks, the Queensland Land Court will hear compelling evidence that the Mining Lease and Environmental approval for the mine should be refused. Our clients will argue coal from the mine […]
EDO has launched legal action on behalf of Central Australia’s peak environmental body, the Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC), challenging the approval of the Northern Territory’s largest ever groundwater licence. Our client has filed judicial review proceedings in the Northern Territory Supreme Court, to challenge the November 2021 decision to re-grant a groundwater licence to […]
UPDATE March 2024 NSW water case discontinued after client secures government commitments Our client, the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), has this month settled its court case against the NSW Ministers for Water and the Environment challenging the validity the Border Rivers Water Sharing Plan. EDO’s Freshwater team filed the case on […]
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 […]
EDO has helped save an internationally significant wetland from mining, with a Canadian company withdrawing its application to explore for gold following a legal intervention by our Freshwater Team. Read more on the case below, and watch a special message of thanks from Managing Lawyer Dr Emma Carmody to committed supporters like you. Legal victories […]
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