Online Briefing: A look into EDO's major climate court cases
Channel: Environmental Defenders Office
Date: 2023-11-30

Online briefing into two of Australia’s most important climate court cases in 2023 with lawyers from the Environmental Defenders Office's Safe Climate team. 

The case to stop NSW’s largest open-cut coal mine with Kirsty Ruddock, Managing Lawyer
The Mount Pleasant mine expansion in the Upper Hunter will release 876 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, pollute the town’s air with toxic particles and threaten the survival of a rare species of legless lizard. 

Court challenge to fracking in the Beetaloo Basin with Emma Buckley Lennox, Solicitor
Opening the Beetaloo up for gas production is incompatible with a safe climate. By approving an environment plan for exploration, the NT Government has laid the grounds for future fracking production potentially involving thousands of fracking wells to be drilled and fracked across the heart of the Territory.  

EDO’s Safe Climate team works to challenge harmful new coal and gas proposals on behalf of clients around Australia and the Pacific. We run landmark legal cases, design better laws and empower communities to drive real climate action for a safer future.