Maules Creek Community Council Inc v Environment Protection Authority
COURT OR TRIBUNAL
New South Wales Land and Environment Court
DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)
31/08/2023
LITIGATION TYPE
Project Approval - Mitigation
SUBJECT MATTER
Coal mine
REVIEW TYPE
Merits review
SUMMARY
Extract from EDO website: A local community group has begun legal action challenging the validity of the review of the Environmental Protection Licence (EPL) for Maules Creek Coal Mine by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) in June this year. […] Maules Creek Community Council (MCCC) has launched legal proceedings in the NSW Land and Environment Court seeking to have the EPA’s review of the EPL ruled invalid. MCCC will argue through its lawyers, the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO), that the EPA failed to consider all of the pollution generated by the mine and its environmental and public health impacts before renewing the licence. The group will also argue the EPA was required to consider the litany of environmental breaches Maules Creek Coal Pty Ltd and associated entities have committed over the past eight years.
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