Source: Environmental Defenders Office

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Bylong Community Wins Again as Coal Mine Appeal is Dismissed - Environmental Defenders Office

  2021-09-14 in Environmental Defenders Office

The NSW Court of Appeal has today upheld the decision to refuse the Bylong Coal Project. The decision comes two years after the NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) first rejected the 6.5 million-tonnes-per-year greenfield coal mine, calling the greenhouse gas emissions from the project ‘problematical’.

  Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Coal

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$21 million in Beetaloo gas grants to face Federal Court challenge - Environmental Defenders Office

  2021-07-29 in Environmental Defenders Office

The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) has today filed urgent proceedings on behalf of the Environment Centre Northern Territory (ECNT), challenging the lawfulness of a Federal Government decision to grant up to $21 million to gas company Imperial Oil and Gas. The decision by the Commonwealth Minister for Resources and Water was announced earlier this month [...]Read More...

  Tagged under: Water Resources

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EDO Challenges HSBC and Barclays Over Finance for Vietnamese Coal Plant - Environmental Defenders Office

  2021-03-01 in Environmental Defenders Office

UPDATE: The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has announced it will stop funding overseas coal power projects. It comes just weeks after EDO’s Safe Climate team challenged Barclays and HSBC over their involvement in a JBIC fund, which is financing a new coal fired power plant in Vietnam. Both HSBC and Barclays publicly committed [...]Read More...

  Tagged under: Coal | Japan | Finance

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