EDO complaint highlights lack of record-keeping
A complaint from EDO on behalf of a client who is resident in the Hunter Valley recently led to a NSW State Archives and Records Authority investigation of Department of Planning,...
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Analysis: Environment loses as subsidies drive extractions in Murray-Darling Basin
EDO water law specialist Emma Carmody has co-authored an article published today which finds that the Australian Government’s $4 billion irrigation efficiency program for the...
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Keeping a vigilant eye on decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic
As the COVID-19 crisis has gathered pace globally and nationally, we’ve been confronted with a period of unprecedented transformation and enormous uncertainty. However, the huge...
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Bylong community successful in bid to join coal mine court case
A legal application by the Bylong Valley Protection Alliance (BVPA), represented by Environmental Defenders Office, to become a full party in the court case to defend the planning...
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Bushfire Survivors Take Action Over NSW Climate Policy
Bushfire survivors are taking legal action to force the New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority to address climate change. EDO is representing a group of people from...
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EDO lawyers are top of class
EDO’s Special Counsel Brendan Dobbie has been honoured as 2021 Lawyer of the Year for his work in Climate Change Law in Sydney, in the Best Lawyers in Australia guide. Only a...
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Analysis: WA EPA new Greenhouse Gas Assessment Policy
By Ruby Hamilton and Sarah Flynne, Solicitors, EDO Perth The new version of the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority’s Environmental Factor Guideline for...
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Analysis: Murray-Darling Basin irrigators convicted of water extraction offence – the recent judgment
On 19 March 2020, the NSW Land and Environment Court delivered judgment in WaterNSW’s prosecution of two irrigators in the northern Murray-Darling Basin. The Court found that...
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Court challenge over coal mine’s critically endangered woodlands offsets failure
A new legal challenge has been launched today against the operator of Whitehaven’s Maules Creek mine for failing to secure thousands of hectares of biodiversity offsets for the...
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Analysis: Native vegetation clearing in NSW – Regulatory failure confirmed
Late last Friday, while everyone was transfixed by the burgeoning COVID-19 crisis, a confidential review of how the NSW native vegetation laws are tracking was quietly and...
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