Central Australian Frack Free Alliance v NT Environment Minister
COURT OR TRIBUNAL
Supreme Court
of the Northern Territory
DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)
07/02/2023
LITIGATION TYPE
Project Approval - Mitigation
SUBJECT MATTER
Gas / Oil
REVIEW TYPE
Judicial review
SUMMARY
(Extract from Environmental Defenders Office)
The Central Australian Frack Free Alliance (CAFFA) has launched a legal challenge to gas company Tamboran’s approval to drill and frack 12 exploratory wells about 600km south of Darwin. CAFFA will ask the NT Supreme Court to review the decision of NT Environment Minister Lauren Moss last November to approve the project’s Environmental Management Plan (EMP). Through its lawyers, the Environmental Defenders Office, CAFFA will argue the EMP approval was invalid because Minister Moss failed to adequately consider the environmental impacts of the project. In particular, CAFFA will argue the minister should have considered the climate impacts of future gas projects that this exploration will enable.
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Central Australian Frack Free Alliance v NT Environment Minister
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