Tasmania's public interest community legal centre for the environment funded by the Commonwealth Environmental Legal Program. The decisions we make today on pollution, threatened species, wilderness, forests, heritage and urban sprawl will have far reaching effects for us and future generations. Too often the community is left out of environmental and planning decisions. Government authorities don't always enforce the law. The EDO is here to help you have your say.
Council proposes to allow subdivision of land.
Our group thinks that some of the pollution laws need changing, and we'd like to know how to frame our submission. Logging is going on in one of our forests. We'd like someone to talk to our group about environmental and planning law. Pollution - noise, dust and sewerage Endangered species protection Wilderness preservation Forestry Marine farming Legal advice is given by our lawyer who is assisted by a group of law student volunteers who answer telephones and assist with legal research.