Mining Law in WA
This factsheet outlines the law which regulates mining activities in Western Australia, including landholder rights and how people can have a say on future mining proposals. […]
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Enforcement of Environmental Offences in WA
This factsheet provides an overview about environmental offences, including pollution, and how compliance and enforcement action is taken in Western Australia. […]
Our First Nations Strategic Advisory Committee
The First Nations Strategic Advisory Committee is a representative national group of people from six different First Nations/Countries, who bring their lived experiences and knowledges of being a First Nations person to guide EDO in its areas of work which involve First Nations peoples and communities, including internally. The Committee is highly respected within EDO. […]
Submission to the Productivity Commission – National Water Reform 2024
The management of water resources in Australia is an increasingly complex issue. The environment, First Nations communities, the broader community and industry all rely on access to finite water resources. EDO’s submission to the Productivity Commission’s National Water Reform 2024 – Call for submissions addresses jurisdictional progress towards implementing the National Water Initiative (NWI) with […]
Federal funding
The Environmental Defenders Office has a proud history of providing access to environmental justice. The first EDO was founded in 1985, and as an accredited Community Legal Centre our public interest environmental lawyers have served people and communities across Australia for nearly 40 years. Our clients are grandparents concerned for younger generations, environmental charities acting […]
Federal Court challenge launched against Woodside over alleged greenwashing
Our client Greenpeace launched a major greenwashing case in the Federal Court against Australia’s biggest energy company, Woodside, on December 14. Greenpeace alleges that the fossil fuel giant has been misleading and deceiving Australians about the enormous climate harm of its gas and oil projects. Woodside claims that it cut down on emissions produced from […]
Woodside’s seismic blasting approval thrown out after legal challenge by Traditional Custodian
The Federal Court has invalidated Woodside Energy’s approval to conduct seismic blasting for its Scarborough Gas Project after a legal challenge by a Traditional Custodian. Mardudhunera woman Raelene Cooper filed a judicial review in August, arguing the offshore regulator NOPSEMA made a legal error in approving the blasting and that Woodside had not met a […]
“I’m elated” Traditional Custodian granted injunction against Woodside’s seismic testing
A Western Australian Traditional Custodian has been granted an urgent injunction to prevent Woodside Energy conducting seismic blasting. Mardudhunera woman Raelene Cooper filed the application last Thursday (7th September) after Woodside warned it was ready to commence blasting, despite an unresolved legal challenge to the validity of its approval. Woodside subsequently agreed not to blast […]
New reports show nature laws are failing
Now is the time for a major re-write of legal frameworks to ensure a world where nature thrives. New reports, informed by input from EDO’s legal experts, have shone a light on the inadequacies of key biodiversity conservation and native vegetation laws. As we stare down triple crises (climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss), and […]
Woodside halts seismic testing plans after Traditional Custodian applies for urgent injunction
CASE UPDATE: On Thursday 14 September, Justice Colvin decided that the injunction should be granted in part due to the reasonable prospect that the first ground of Raelene Cooper’s substantive legal challenge to NOPSEMA approval of the seismic blasting will be successful. His honour brought the hearing for that argument, and a separate question of […]
