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Win as wetlands saved from gold exploration

EDO’s Freshwater Team has helped save an internationally significant wetland from mining activity – Managing Lawyer Dr Emma Carmody and Solicitor Huw Calford explain A...

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EDO to Give Evidence at Another Hearing into EPBC Act Amendment Bills

By Head of Policy Reform Rachel Walmsley Today, EDO is giving evidence at a parliamentary inquiry hearing into another EPBC amendment bill – this time it is the...

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Biodiversity in New South Wales

Community Discontinues Maules Creek Mine Offsets Case After Minister’s Decision

After years of community concern and engagement, the conditions for the Maules Creek Coal Mine have been varied by the Federal Environment Minister to acknowledge that...

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Biodiversity in New South Wales

Tahmoor Coal Mine Extension Approved by NSW IPC

The Tahmoor South Coal Project has been approved by the NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC). Mine owners SIMEC Mining, whose parent company...

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Defending World Heritage Springbrook National Park from water mining

Lawyers from the EDO are going to the Queensland Planning and Environment Court to defend the Springbrook World Heritage Area from groundwater mining, which...

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Water in New South Wales

NSW’s Overdue Water Resource Plans Hampered by Further Delays

Dr Emma Carmody, Managing Lawyer, Freshwater TeamHuw Calford, Solicitor, Freshwater Team After more than two years of delays, a crucial element of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan...

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Joy for EDO Clients as Shenhua Coal Mine is Cancelled

In a massive win for Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) clients, Traditional Owners and farmers, the Shenhua coal mine proposal in north west New South Wales has been cancelled....

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Australia

Defending the Unburnt: A landmark legal initiative

14 million hectares burned. Nearly 3 billion native animals impacted. Entire communities all but destroyed. We have a plan to defend what remains. Our forests and native habitats...

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Biodiversity in New South Wales

Analysis: New Koala SEPP Commences in NSW – But Worse is Yet to Come

By Senior Solicitor Cerin Loane Following its announcement on 8 March 2021 (see our earlier update), the NSW Government has now made State Environmental...

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