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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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EIS for huge copper and gold river mine in PNG ‘unfit for purpose’
EDO’s Papua New Guinean (PNG) legal-advocacy partner CELCOR (Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights) and their client Project Sepik have this week called for the...
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EDO responds to COVID-19
A message from our CEO David Morris about the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve rapidly and our response is too. I wanted to write now and let you...
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Analysis: Climate change and water governance in an era of high-tech irrigation
Improving adaptation, sustainability, transparency and public trust On 19 February this year, Dr Emma Carmody, EDO’s Special Counsel and water law expert, gave this opening...
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Call to declare koalas ‘endangered’ in NSW
Underpinned by legal advice from the Environmental Defenders Office, conservation groups have called for the NSW government to make an emergency endangered species declaration for...
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Equinor abandons plans to drill in Bight
Environmental Defenders Office joins our client The Wilderness Society (South Australia) in strongly welcoming news that Norwegian multinational Equinor has abandoned its plans to...
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